a guy who actually paid his taxes unlike the treasury secretary secretary on behalf of the obama cabinethe's got to basically make the point. two points, the one we made in our editorial the other day, this mythology that the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes as we showed in our editorial. when you include the corporate taxes that are paid. rich people like mitt romney and warren buffett is twice as high as the tax rate paid on the middle class. >> so, 15%. >> that's right, that's a big differential. so it's a myth that somehow, warren buffett and mitt romney are paying less than a plumber or a secretary and of course, as we all know, barack obama is going to make that class warfare issue the center piece of his reelection campaign and he also has to do a better job, in my opinion. he said he wasn't going to apologize for being successful and then he apologizes for being successful. i think that's his problem. he's on the defensive too much. >> paul: why won't he-- we met with mitt romney, mary, he came in and we had a very good session, almost 90 minutes. why won't he come out fo

. >>> there was an extra big chair in president obama cabinet meeting today and that seat was held by the small business administration on to a cabinet level position. karen mills. congratulations, how did it feel to sit next to the president around the table. had to be a good feeling. >> this was a great day. this cabinet meeting and it an even better day because the president was talking today about unit aunt practibusiness how we can create the manufacture plants and have the r and d here and they can do it by taking their companies public. this is how we build an economy that is built to last. american businesses create all the net new jobs in the country. >> one of the things that the president said today was he wants to create situation where we will create the next next y over seas contractors. and all those contractors. what do we do to create an atmosphere where these new great businesses will hire here at home more than they hire overse overseas. >> there's so many examples,own the most amazing things that can be created here. apple is not the only example and one of the thi

. >>> this morning, the son of one of president obama's cabinet members is in egypt and not allowed toe country. sam lahood is the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. he and several other americans are part of a washington-backed organization banned from leaving egypt because it is under investigation. egypt's ruling military council has accused the u.s. of funding groups with the intent of destabilizing the country. >>> now to the race for the white and gingrich are neck and neck in florida, five days before the state primary. romney leads gingrich by 2 percentage points in the latest poll with rick santorum and ron paul third and fourth in that poll. the candidates will scare off tonight in jacksonville. >>> gingrich is aiming high in his effort to win in florida, literally. he told voters near the kennedy space center last night that the united states will have the first permanent base on the moon by the end of his second term if he's elected. gingrich said he wants to spend part of nasa's budget on prize money for competitions to encourage the private sector to to develop s

. >> romney and his business career created more jobs than the entire obama cabinet combined so he could this kuehl is paid for by romney for president, inc. >> that was take from a debate back early on when we had good newt on the stage. when newt was running a positive campaign. >> i think the tough part for romney right now is his campaign is built on three legs, it's the republican desire to get rid of obama, it's the bad economy and his standing as a business leader. right now the economy seems to be turning around and his standing as a business leader is being called into question in front of the entire american public. >> those are the long-term issues. >> he's got a real problem on his hands. >> this is short-term and what's interesting here is that our future is up with an attack ad not on newt gingrich. but on santorum. here's a piece of it. >> barack obama knows four facts about rick santorum that you don't. santorum voted for the bridge to nowhere. a teapot museum. santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times and he even voted to let convicted felons vote. how will santo

american, a relatively harmless american, but an veteran nevertheless, whose father is in president obama's cabinet, that might get some support for the military. >>shepard: which is most likely the goal. >>judge napolitano: yes. look as we speak there is no rule of law in subsequent. the military makes up the law as they go along. the military is prosecuting president obama for people who are killed in in the square and the military has killed more in the square than they accused mubarak of killing. >>shepard: listen to this. a full screen, a call for full screen. here is the e-mail. several of us have been offered refuge at the u.s. ambassador's residence, and this is the nuclear obligation raising this to a full-blown crisis if it isn't already. >>judge napolitano: that is probably so if you isolate americans on the do not leave list in the one place brought egyptian military cannot go under all international standards, they cannot go inside the american military, you are raising the military of what we saw at the time of, in the carter administration, with the embassy in tehran. >>shepard: and

. >> james, let's give him credit, at least he pays his taxes unlike half of the obama cabinet. >> please. >> but i do believe james and erin, you just kind of repeated the line we made in our editorial this morning that maybe this really does argue for a fundamental restructuring of the tax system. in a way that's fair. james, i want to correct you on one thing. when you said people like mitt romney are paying lower tax rates than a plumber or secretary, which is what warren buffett said, the evidence doesn't confirm that. congressional budget office report came out a couple of months ago that shows the average effective rate of the top 1%, the richest 1 persh in america, is about twice as high as the effective federal tax rate that is imposed on a secretary or plumbar. >> let's go back to 39.6 when we created 22 million jobs. i don't understand how these people with the straight face argue that cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs. we have living proof that 39.6 is right in the wheel house and that would be a great idea and then romney wouldn't have to be embarrassed. and could releas

. >> james, let's give him credit, at least he pays his taxes unlike half of the obama cabinet. >> please. >> but i do believe james and erin, you just kind of repeated the line we made in our editorial this morning that maybe this really does argue for a fundamental restructuring of the tax system. in a way that's fair. james, i want to correct you on one thing. when you said people like mitt romney are paying lower tax rates than a plumber or secretary, which is what warren buffett said, the evidence doesn't confirm that. congressional budget office report came out a couple of months ago that shows the average effective rate of the top 1%, the richest 1 persh in america, is about twice as high as the effective federal tax rate that is imposed on a secretary or plumbar. >> let's go back to 39.6 when we created 22 million jobs. i don't understand how these people with the straight face argue that cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs. we have living proof that 39.6 is right in the wheel house and that would be a great idea and then romney wouldn't have to be embarrassed. and could releas

we just learned the agricultural secretary, tom vilsack, will be the one member of the obama cabinetlways have one member standing by. they have the president, speaker and top leaders and they want to keep some member away, god forbid something were to happen. you can see the south lawn of the white house and the president and first lady limo. they will be exiting there to make the short drive to capitol hill. >> reporter: they will. the state of the union speech is so important to the president particularly as you head into an election. the challenge of this kind of speech, we all know it's an election year. you have to lay down your political markers without appearing to be too partisan to the american public. what the public wants to hear from the president is his vision from the country and sense of what he's accomplished over the last year. the challenge, i think, for barack obama, going forward is to make this election not a referendum on the economy but a choice between his vision and the republican vision. we heard senator shun sthune sa >> here they go. the president and fir

. >> reporter: newt gingrich john also taking a swipe at the president relating oklahoma's c obama's cabineto a picture of mickey and goofy. regardless, i wanted to say not like you need it, good luck with the debate tonight, buddy. >> i'm looking forward to it. high stakes for the candidates. their debate not mine but i'm proud to be part of it. we're hopefully going to have a good discussion and maybe a little fun along the way. kate, thanks very much. i hope you'll stay with us. we're expecting the candidates for tonight's debate to start arriving any minute now. you see the north charleston coliseum behind me. they each have a green room down below. that's our debate hall looking shiny and nice. you think the debates in the tv commercials are rough? we're going to show you some of the things arriving in south carolina, mailboxes in these final hours. the word ouch applies. stay with us. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care exp

megyn: the son of a sitting obama cabinet member is being held indefinitely in the middle east. lahood who is the son of transportation secretary ray lahood is on a list of people barred from leaving egypt. he is a member of of an advocacy group. receive centanni is live in washington with more. >> reporter: at least four americans have been barred from leaving egypt, including the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. sam lahood is the head of the national republican institute. he's seen here at his father's swearing in ceremony. he tried to leave egypt and was stopped by authorities. their offices were raided last month by egyptian authorities, computers and other files confiscated, staff members questioned. the state department is working to get the rights of these workers restored. >> we are urging the government of egypt to lift the restrictions immediately and allow folks to come home as soon as possible and we are hopeful this issue will be resolved. >> reporter: it marks the one-year anniversary of the uprising that ousted hosni mubarak. the future of u.s. aid to e

. >>> of trapped in egypt, the son of an obama cabinet member is barred from leave the country and hehy. take a look at this image of sam lahood on left of your screen sitting next to his father, ray lahood, the u.s. secretary of transportation. now, sam lahood, would fur a republican-linked group that promotes democracy in foreign countries. just this past saturday he tried to fly out of the cairo airport only to learn that he's on egypt's no exit list and the state department says several other u.s. citizens are now on that list, as well. i want to bring in foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty. you actually got sam on the phone just a short time ago. how is he doing? >> yeah, well we got him on the phone when he went to the airport, he tried to get out. they looked at his passport and essentially sent him back to his apartment in cairo where he is right now. we went over to iri headquarters. and talked to him by phone and here's what he said. >> sam, do you feel safe where you are at this point? >> yeah, i feel safe physically. you know, obviously, the fact that the investig

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. >>> president obama elevates the sba to a cabinet division. and we have a look at what is hot to help small businesses from the consumer electronic show. that and more coming up next on "your business." >>> hi, there, everybody. welcome to "your business," where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. president obama announced the immediate elevation of a chief to a cabinet level post. he wants to put six agencies under one department. >> as long as folks are looking for work and small businesses are looking for customers, i will do everything that i can with my current authority to help. >> and karen mills heads u the sba. congratulations are in order. >> it's an incredible honor to serve in the president's cabinet. i think it's a reflection of the importance that the administration and the president has put on small business really from day one. >> can you tell me effectively what does this change? symbolically, it means something, but are there things you wouldn't be able to accomplish that you have been able to do it otherw

political environment you had the defense minister aide who would be a rock praising obama's diplomacy you had another israeli cabinet member criticizing him certainly it's no secret that netanyahu and obama don't get along but to talk about the israeli elite as though it's one. unit dimensional anti israel behemoths because they don't like having another power in the region you know this is about iran's nuclear program that is threatening the state of israel when iran talks about erasing israel from the pages of history pursues and the reason is that based on you know it's not entirely clear that it's not entirely clear that was ever there was a bad translation of what the president of iran had to say so i go ahead i absolutely peter and that israel has two three hundred nuclear warheads it's been supplied by dolphin submarines by germany which can which can actually cause nuclear have a there it's got one of the biggest strongest army in the whole world and it's one of the biggest arms exporter so how can iran even if it's private even if it chose to weaponize its nuclear program which it has not done it will not b

>>> president obama elevates the sba to a cabinet level position. sba administrator tells us how that will help your small business. and a look at what's hot in devices to help small businesses from the consumer electronics show. that and more coming up next on "your business." >>> hi there, everyone. i'm jj ramberg. welcome to "your business," where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. there is big small business change in washington. president obama announced the immediate elevation of the small business administration chief to a cabinet level post, and he wants congress to give him the authority to consolidate six agencies and put them under one department. >> as long as folks are looking for work and small businesses are looking for customers, i'm going to keep doing everything i can with my current authority to help. >> karen mills heads up the sba and joins us now. administrator, first and foremost, congratulations are in order. >> thank you so much, jj. it's an incredible honor to serve in the president's cabinet. i think i

. >> as president obama reconvenes his cabinet to try and keep the focus on jobs, catholic leaders arearning another issue may blow up in his face come november. >> when you push people of faith and you tell them that the government is going to knock down the wall and separates the church and state and overreach like the obama administration, you've got a war on your hands. >> new rules by the president's health care reform law will force catholics universities and charities, covering contraception, even though that violates church teachings. in an extraordinary mover. at cardinal designate, timothy dolan, the policy from the pulpit. this shouldn't happen in the land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the bill of rights. >> at the white house, jay carney said several times, the administration believes it struck an appropriate balance. >> between respecting religious beliefs and access to important preventive services. >> liberal columnist ripped the policy in a washington post column charging the president utterly botched the issue and threw his progressive catholic allies

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of the united states. >> reporter: at the white house on friday, president obama wants to pull another chair up to the cabinet room table. >> as of today, i'm elevating the small business administration to a cabinet level agency. >> reporter: karen mills, the head of the small business administration, will be a full cabinet member and some of the president's other proposals h congress. >> with or without congress, i'm going keep at it and it would be easier if congress helped. >> reporter: the president announced he wants to merge six agencies, including the democrat of commerce, u.s. trade representative, the export/import bank, the overseas private investment corporation and the u.s. trade and development agency. >> today, i'm calling on congress to re-enstate the authority that thapast presidents have had to streamline and reform the executive branch. >> reporter: ronald reagan was the last president who could reorganize the government without the congressional okay. the power expired in 1994. the current front-runner for the nomination wants to cut government, not reorganize it. >> the president, under hi

. >>> the white house pulling up another chair in the cabinet room. president obamaounced he's elevating the head of the small business administration to a cabinet level position, part of a new effort to combine several federal agencies into one. under the proposal six major trade and commerce agencies with overlapping programs will be merged. >> with or without congress i'm going to keep at it, but it would be a lot easier if congress helped. this is an area that should receive bipartisan support because making or government more responsive and strategic and leaner, it shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> it's far from a sure thing that congress would grant the president that power. in an election year the president's move could be aimed at putting congress on the defense. >>> former presidential candidate john edwards has a serious heart condition that will delay his trial on campaign finance violations. the federal judge has two letters from a cardiologist stating edwards has a life threatening condition that will require surgery next month. he was set to stand trial

preparing for his third state of the union address, president obama this afternoon walked from the cabinet room of the white house along the colonnade. >> may have a few touch-ups left. >> reporter: he was asked how he feels about the speech he'll give in a few hours. >> it's not bad. >> reporter: he may have seemed serene. but white house officials, trying to build excitement in a west wing kind of way put out this behind the scenes video with shots of his speech writers working with the president on the address. and close-ups of the pages. tonight's speech is intended as a follow-up to the fiery populism the president has been honing on the road. >> i believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot. when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. >> reporter: the president will outline four pillars of his domestic agenda. and take that message to five battleground states starting tomorrow. day one, american manufacturing in cedar rapids, iowa, and phoenix, arizona. thursday, american energy in las vegas, nevada, and denver, colorado. and skil

the last time a cabinet department was added. president obamaently asked congress to merge under one new cabinet post, for what it's worth. as for homeland security, talk about a slapped-together department, but we'll save that debate for another day. >>> well, mitt romney was itching for a fight. romney dropped the entire gingrich oppo file. >> when i was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with nancy pelosi encouraging it. when i was fighting to say the paul ryan plan was bold and right, he was saying that it was right-wing social engineering. >> he said at least four things that are false. i don't want to waste the time on them. i think the american public deserves a speech on how to bead barack obama. >>> perry bacon, and political editor the grio.com, and steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. lois, it was newt romney and mitt gingrich, apparently. they traded personalities a bit last night. how did it work? >> i don't think it worked well for gingrich because of a couple reasons. he needs very strong debate perf

is president obama acting as chief executive cheerleader, if you will, for bipartisan efforts under way in congress to extend tax breaks for small businesses. now at the start of a cabinet meeting, president obama said he would sign legislation right away. the specifics, permanent elimination of capital gains tax rates for investments in small businesses and a one-year extension on all business detuxs for the cost of new equipment and software. >> it is a symbol of how important it is for us to spur entrepreneurship, to help start-ups, to move aggressively so that we can assure more companies that create the most jobs in our economy are getting a leg-up. >> reporter: the president also going on to tell his cabinet members that he's urging each department to come up with more ideas, encourage investment, create jobs and, of course, boost the economy. tyler? >> hampton, thank you very much. >>> super bowl media day is here. players and coaches of the giants and the pats talking to the world's press about everything from the big game, global politics to their favorite colors. our darren rovell joins us with the highlights so far. hey, darren. >> reporter: that's right, ty.

later, president obama will attend a white house jobs forum. the event will include cabinet companies that decided to reopen manufacturing plants that have been operating overseas. live coverage begins at 12:15 eastern. now we will hear from the winner of the new hampshire primary, mitt romney who spoke to supporters at southern new hampshire university in manchester. [cheers and applause] >> oh. well. >> there are so many friends here. what a great night this is. thank you, new hampshire. [applause] this could not have happened without the help lot of people. i just need to mention a few of them. special thanks to senator kelly ayotte, governor john sununu -- i don't know where he went. senator judd gregg, congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across the state. thank you also, mayor. ted gatsis. the many state legislators who have been tireless workers on our behalf. one state senator deserves special mention. jeb bradley is out there somewhere. he has fired up audiences everywhere we go. thanks to ray burton, and others who have been

supreme court, and president obama is cabinet or in the room. the first lady invited a number of guests. some of our guests included and manager of a general motors assembly plant in detroit. the u.s. and force a -- u.s. air force intelligence officer, and the secretary for warren buffett. mark kelly joined the first lady, the husband of gabrielle giffords who announced that she will resign from her congressional seat this week after surviving a gunshot wound last year. also in attendance, the widow of a steve jobs. she has started a number of organizations to help disadvantaged kids and families. -- disadvantaged students and families. now we will get the republican response to the president's fate of the union speech from indiana gov. mitch daniels. the second term governor served as president bush's budget director. aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9/11, and for bravely backing long overdue changes in public education. i personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the first lady have display

there was president obama speaking just moments ago. the first cabinetg thing he's talking about, the focus ever the administration on small business saying we need to be able to have entrepreneur finding the next google or the next apple. very tech-heavy advice. another trip along florida's political landscape. four states of florida, as we're calling it. richard lui is back. >> another part we're looking at. saying duvall county predicted the nominee almost 80% of the time. one of the few misses, mitt romney who won in 2008. now, since, in north florida, this area here, population nearly 1 million, nearly the same number as delaware, it should be a gingrich stobeginng. a strong evangelical vote, many consider this section south georgia. a large african-american community as well flexing its muscle in the general election as we look forward. while tea party kearns remain very front bunn-runner in the country. and districts fall in this area, republican. one of them with strong tea party support congressman stephen sutherland, for example. this second st