mr. rendell, the question is tonight, herman cain, let's go to michael's next problem. e he'll do a little better. >> maybe he'll do a little better. >> mr. cain, doesn't he's got to deal with, i'm sure, he has to deal with the electrified fences. now he starts with what he says was a joke. he starts saying -- and we played the tape again. the problem is on this show we have tapes. we don't testify for these people. we let them speak for themselves. on tape as i played to the public he said maybe a fence, fence up there may be electrified and may have a sign there this will kill. then he goes and tells david gregory sunday it was a joke. >> then he goes next to sheriff joe and says i'm not apologizing for anything. just between you and i, i know we're democrats and he's going to say it's jaded, but doesn't that appear slightly inconsistent to you, governor rendell? >> well, sure it does, reverend. and i don't believe mr. cain is really a serious candidate. i don't believe he thinks he's a serious candidate, the polls notwithstanding. i want to go back, if i can, to what'

mr. speaker. ed rendell and e.j. deon on republicans plans. meet willard mitt romney's foreign policy team. it looks a lot like team bush. >> i will devote myself to an american sentry. >> i don't think so, romney/bush. >>> in north carolina, how about the koch brothers billionaires are helping the rep resegregate public schools. parents are fighting back. tonight we will too. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead. help wanted now more than ever. new job numbers today are driving the point home hard. employers added 103,000 job last month. it's a positive step, but unemployment rate is still at 9.1%, and 14 million americans are still looking for work. to them, each day that congress doesn't pass the president's jobs plan is a day wasted. but reps are stuck in reverse. remember what president obama said at his news conference? >> here's a little homework assignment for folks. go ask the republicans what their jobs plan is, have it assessed by the same independent economists that have assessed our

were republicans like yourself, along with rudy guiliani, and democrats, howard dean, governor ed rendell. mrs a terrorist organization in the 1990's as a strategic device to talk with the iranians. obviously that hasn't worked. it was kept on the list after that in the belief if they were taken off then the iranians would get upset and do things like support the terrorists in iraq and send ied's into iraq which of course, they're doing anyway. this group had been persecuted in iran. they have a group of 3400 of them who are living in encampment in iraq, and are now in danger of being really obliterated by the iraqi army. >> alisyn: in fact, we've seen some evidence that may already be happening. secretary ridge, i just want to define for our viewers what this is. this is a group called nek and as we understand it, they're people who are committee had to a secular, democratic and nonnuclear iran. they sound important to iran's future. >> they certainly are. this designation has lasted for almost 15 years with the naive hope that keeping them on the terrorist list would encourage iran to negot

mr. norquist. i like your debate with ed rendell. guest: i did, too. amoco hebrew -- prove many of your statements are false. guest: actually, he did not, but we could go through it. caller: i read in the media that you are threatening -- anyone who raises taxes you would punish them. is that true? guest: no, -- it is true you may have read that in the newspapers. i have read it in the newspapers. what a pledge says is it is a commitment by an elected official that he or she will not raise taxes. they may do many of or interesting things but they will not raise your taxes. that commitment is to you and to other people in your towns and cities in that congressional district or bring that state, if it is a senator. 1300 state legislators have taken the pledge not to raise taxes and 13 governors as well. you are calling from illinois. in illinois your governor has not taken the pledge. he has raised taxes. it is the legislature has not taken the pledge. they have raised taxes. across the country, and illinois in the last couple of years has done more ofte