also, congressman mark pocan. great to have both of you with us tonight.first, lena, how can walker claim progress on job creation when data proves absolutely the opposite? >> well, ed, the facts have never mattered to them about telling the truth ordealing with the actual factual situation we're in in the state of wisconsin. whether that is true or false. he believes he can lull the voters, i guess, lull taxpayers. >>> believing whatever he says he says is true it the facts show everything to be different. when you look at the unemployment numbers in my city, among african-americans in plash particular. why is that not the special item we're doing? >> what are the things they are doing? what is wisconsin doing? if you were to compare wisconsin's record with what mark dayton and the democrats are doing in minnesota, it's only a -- i mean, it's two totally different worlds. the economy is booming in minnesota whereas wisconsin is struggling. what do you make of that? >> you're exactly right. it's because we're spending our time on all these, you know, extre

host: we are back with congressman mark pocan who served on the budget committee and is in his first term in congress talking about the economy and job creation. we were asking our viewers earlier on their ideas for spurring economic growth. what are your ideas? guest: the ideas we put forth in the democratic versions of the budget like in testing and infrastructure so we can get people back to work right now and investing in education and investing in research and development are three of the pillars that i look at that can best that get the economy going especially when we know that in 2014, we were told by the congressional budget office that 3/4 of eric deficit was caused by -- of our deficit was caused economic weakness. those three pillars get is there. host: what about tackling the long-term issues with our deficit and with their budget, the things that are a drag on our economy, the amount of money on health care and medicare and social security, those sort of programs that need to be addressed? democrats don't want to put them on the table. guest: because we are putting othe

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