time" magazine and andy stern is the president of the service employee international union and nia-malika henderson of the "waington post.". the president makes his case to the congss and the american people when we continue. captioning sponsed by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: this evening, president obama addressed a joint session of congress, he unveiled an ambitious strategy to create jobsnd prevent a second recession. he called upon congress congress to pass a bill immediately and without hesitation >> i am sending this congress a plan that you should pass right away. it's called the american jobs act. there should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. everything in here is the ki of proposal that's been suppord by both democrats and republicans, including many who sit here tonight. and everything in this bill will be paid for. everything. >> rose: the legislation which l include a variety of measures to boost job growth and stimulate the economy. >> more jobs for construction workers, teachers, veterans a

joining the conversation, tom defrank of the "new york daily news," nia-malika henderson of the "washington post," matthew dowd, former strategist for george w. bush,john harris of politico and jack welch former c.e.o. of general electric. >> a decisive leader. somebody who's done something in new jersey that's special. and has done the real thing, who seems to be totally authentic. it's a very attractive characteristic. >> he's smart enough to understand that it's the wrong time for him. that he's not ready to be president which i think makes him presidential timbr to tell yothe truth. i have twoords for governor christie, fred thompson. >> i think the two questions governor christie hasto answer-- and we always answer the first question-- is are you ready to run? and i think that's the a question you've got to answer. but the second question which i think is an important question is are you ready to governor? and i think barack obama answered the first question yes, he was ready to run and he won. but i don't think many candidates asked the second question, are you ready to govern? >> onc

alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst and nia-malika henderson covers politics for "the washingtonost." ladies, thank you for coming on tonight. it seems to me a most to the point question about american politics. we know the economy's terrible, we know people are very angry about it. everyone is, of every age group. the question is, what's the smart, intelligent thing for this president to say as he attempts to fix it? is he smart to say it's bush's fault, or what joe biden is starting to say now, the vice president, look, we're in charge now, we hope it gets better, we're not going to blame it on the past? >> look, i think biden is taking the argument that we opened up the church doors, there was a baby on our doorstep. it's not our baby, but we're going to take care of the baby. which is effect liively what he arguing for in terms of the economy. it is their responsibility to shepherd it to a better place. but how long is the american going to give them? thus far the administration has been reliant on this talking point, it took a long time to get into it, it's going to take a l

it's the end of school for thirteen year old malika college in frankfurt germany. his grandparents escape from morocco in the one nine hundred seventy s. training a largely white german society his mother niger grew up here and she's seen things change but we had a time where everything was perfect that we don't hear like that we are immigrant let down there i'd like. i was born as a after five years when i feel like something's happened in the politics not just problems are at least partly down to a massive demographic change statistics show that the overall population of young people in germany has fallen by two million in the past decade or so you cannot make a situation also a population will increase so many families for. not have as much children as we need increasingly wealthy germans see raising children whilst holding down jobs as a waste of time and money the only parts of the population that are growing immigrant communities the changes in culture and ethnicity a leaving some germans feeling threatened islamism leaders forty years law make model of socie

. >> joining mess is malika from "the washington post," and syndicated columnist bob franken. are you surprised his job plan is aimed at corporate interests? >> well, unfortunately most of the corporations thinks days are laid laid off people except for a few at the top whose idea of a job plan is to hire a few people to build an extension to their mansions and maybe work for minimum wage, and that's only because they can't get rid of the minimum wage. the simple fact is quorpgss in today's society are really just financial instruments, the play things for the wealthy to get wealthier. >> when we look at former governor romney's record, look at the state of massachusetts and we look at where they are, 47 out of 50 in job growth. he has these plans for job creation, it seems like if he had them, they would have worked when he was governor, because there's nothing he's saying now that's new, and they've already been tried in the state he was governor at. >> well, reverend, you're saying exactly what governor rick perry said a couple minutes on a statement after romney's speech,

for example, when major that's all malika signed in fort hood texas opened fire on his fellow soldiers now this is key, not the fact he was muslim. put that aside. that he was shouting god is great. as the history of this, this is what is important. clearly there is some religious inspiration that has driven him to this crime. but the first thing that we heard out of the mouths of organizations, you know, that claim to represent moderate muslims who is no, no, don't misunderstand. islam has nothing to do with this. now, i put myself in the shoes of a non-muslim american and for that matter, some muslim americans. and i can imagine why many of them and say, wait a minute, here is this guy with the word a law -- allah dripping off his lips and you tell me islam has nothing to do with this. i am confused. and when you ask those questions, moderate muslims in my experience and in the experience of many of the reformist muslims with whom i've been in conversation and can put up wall and say, you enough about. they're not allowed to ask those questions. respect me, which is a euphemism for d

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malika henderson, for "the washington post" and "real clear politics" and msnbc political analyst michaelblican party. i want to start with what i think is the youtube moment of the debate last night that i'm sure the perry campaign is cringing about today. and the only reason that the romney campaign isn't sending it around, it's about mitt romney. let's play it. >> i think americans just don't know sometimes which mitt romney they're dealing with. is it is the mitt romney that was on the side of -- against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment? was it before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was far standing out for roe vs. wade? before he was against roe vs. wade? he was for race to the top. he's for obamacare, and now he's against it. >> michael steele. >> get out of -- >> it was one of those, you just sit there and you're -- you know what he's trying to do. we've all been there. we can have our own technical problems and stuff that goes down. but for rick perry, he didn't need that moment. this is third debate in a row where questions a

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