keith boykin, start us off. we just heard congressman sestak say, no, this is not some republican orchestrated backlash, people are truly concerned. why don't you liberal dems start over and rifle in on the 15 million unemployed people who can't get. >> it you have sarah palin making up distortions and lies about death panels that don't exist. you have this guy at the town hall meeting talking about get your government hands off my medicare not even realizing medicare is a government program and people carrying guns and shouting matches in town hall meetings, you can't have a serious discussion in this context. what's astounding about the two members of congress both have government insurance. they have the option to choose among government or public provider, why can't the american people have the same thing members of congresses. >> unfortunately the plan is so bad even the congressman voting for it don't want to be represented in it. go ahead, greg. >> they don't want it. the people are mad because congress i

we're back with keith boykin, jerry boyer, liz chadderdon and deroy murdoch. let me run this rich people's tax hike for a second. take a listen. >> i believe in our constitution, and it's a very important thing. i also get my news from the cable networks because i don't like the spin that comes from them other places. >> you've got to be careful about them cable networks, though. that's okay. go ahead. go on with your question. >> we keep getting the bull. that's all we get is bull. you can't tell us how you're going to pay for this. the only way you're going to get that money is to raise our taxes. you said you wouldn't. you are absolutely right that i can't cover another 46 million people for free. but let's assume it costs about $30 billion a year over ten years. we do have to come up with that money. when i was campaigning, i made a promise that i would not raise your taxes if you made $250,000 a year or less. that's what i said. but i said that for people like myself who make more than that there's nothing wrong with me paying a little bit more in order t

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keith boykin is a democratic strategist and editor-in-chief of the daily voice. good to see you. these legions of grass-roots supporters, will they support the president on this. >> i think they already have been. the problem is they don't know where the president is or will be on the health care issue. they need to see some clear definitive statement he's going to stand by something, for example, the public option so they don't feel like their feet are being out from underneath them. >> and so then i wonder what can be gained by tomorrow's session if we've already heard that the president has not decided on for example, as you bring you, the public option something we believe is of great interest to many of the grassroots activists. he's not going to decide that we hear for at least a month, what kind of message will the president bring to gather their support. >> i think what the president needs to do is reassure the liberal democratic progressive activityists he's still going to fight for health care. what people are sensing on the left is the president and white house are gun

and also with us keith boykin editor of "the daily voice" and cnbc contributor.ayor mccrory, let me start with you. you're critical of the stimulus plan. you say it doesn't offer permanent help. what do you mean? what's the problem with it? >> two things. first of all, it was sold as spending a lot of money on infrastructure. and in fact less than 15% of the money is being spent on infrastructure and most of the infrastructure that the mayors and governors have to spend it on is what they call shovel-ready. and that means it's going to be short-term projects. many of them are like repaving roads, which the new politically correct term is renourishing roads to make it sounds like we're doing more -- >> but by shovel ready meant it was immediate, right? we wanted people working immediately. >> yeah, but what we need are jobs that have long-term ramifications, where you hire engineers, where you hire architects, where you hire planners. instead we're really putting it toward projects which were already budgeted with very expensive money and were widening roads and f

squaring off in the power grid, our cnbc contributor keith boykin and political analyst joe watkins. you each get 20 seconds at the start. joe, i start with you. why should he just drop the public option? >> well, why should we make -- why should government be the enemy of private industry, and why should private insurance companies have to compete with the government? they can't. private companies have to make a profit, government doesn't, as we know all too well. and why ruin a system that needs some work but doesn't need to be completely overhauled. >> wow, he did that in ten seconds. keith. 20 seconds on why you think he should keep t. >> the poll also shows that the majority of americans support a public health insurance option. the majority of americans believe that we do need to have some sort of competition in the system, because the prices are too high. and all we're talking about is give people a choice. if you don't like the public insurance line, don't use it. >> you know, joe, right? we need more choice, right, so you could get rid of insurance rules that prevent you fro