it's called the obama economy. i mean, our position is going to be really simple. have lots of regulations, big government messing things up, you refuse to allow acceleration, you cripple small business with obama care, you don't get jobs. you don't get jobs you're going to get income inequality. >> aren't you ashaumed? you guys in the republican party actually have some really good ideas for job creation. you know who's been championing them? president obama in his jobs program which is all your ideas. you guys won't even vote for your own ideas. >> republicans by and large have not put forward higher taxes as a strategy. >> obama's cut taxes. >> i think the fact is that the biggest thing they want is economic growth. economic growth. >> why won't you vote for president obama's jobs plan? >> they don't want to kill jobs. >> more ideas. >> raising taxes and more regulations is not our idea. that's nonsense. >> we have trickle down before. it doesn't produce the jobs in which we want to. we need to continue to make the investments in education, in infrastructure. th

and now you got problems with -- >> you got the obama economy. it's awfully hard to fix the obama economy. he's trying as best he can. but he's got washington screwing things up. >> he's worse than every other neighboring state, though. am i wrong? >> i can tell how serious this candidate is for 2016 by your passion. [ laughter ] >> i mean, if this guy were as bad as you said he was you'd be saying bring him on. you're doing more hard work. let me ask you for a second. i think one of the most fascinating things about where we are is that your probable nominee, first lady, senator, secretary clinton, will be running in a city that 80% of the country is now mad at. she somehow has to become the candidate of change. now, because i think whether it's chris christie or perry or kasick or walker or any one of a dozen other republicans, they're going to be the candidate of change. how as a professional, how do you advise her? how does hillary clinton somehow become the candidate of the future with a 20-year past? >> i think it's also not a change. most

lou: much mre on the obama economy coming up.efense debacle. he says he doesn't write code and neither does secretary kathleen sebelius. and the chief technology offir can't testify because we try to fix it all. the "a-team" coming up lou: joining us now is the "a-team." robert zimmerman and jedediah bila. ebony williams. it is going to have you with us. if we may, mary landrieu, senator from louisiana had survived and got out of town. as the president a lame duck and talks that? >> obviously, thank you so much for having me. yes, i believe that vulnerable democrats e certainly going to try to distance themselves from the president right now nd we have a 39% approval rating. and the fact that right now status credibility is on the thg ith obamacare. i'm soappy to see them come out and ologize to the american peoplfor misleading them. he gave them a statement that they relied on, many of us, in the democratic party. we were lied on this to champion the health care legislation and that was not quite true. so yes, democrats dtancing

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. >> in the meantime, we have the issue where under the barack obama economy, many argue the biggest recipients of progress have been already rich people. a man who came to power, i'm speaking for everyone. how difficult is that? the inequality story and this president, can he do something? >> i think he is very limited because the next two years are his last two years. the more we move forward, the more of a lame duck he is. i think it is difficult for him to do something major on this. inequality is this century's, if you will, real problem here. >> i agree. >> because it is so insane. it is ridiculous. i think that you are beginning to hear from voices with platforms. >> if you talk about raising the minimum wage or livable wage in the country, can he do that? can he get anything done with the kind of rankor in washington you see right now? >> i think partly because of the democrats and republicans don't see the minimum wage to address diversity. when you talk mostly to people about income inequity. that means we are looking 20 years out from my real change. >> the president's age

to what extent is part of the challenge just the whoa nature of the obama economy and the degree to which the general -- is not creating the economic growth we would like? >> let's face it, the financial crisis was an unbelievable catastrop catastrophe. we've had many jobs of growth. i think the bigger issue is what is the changed role with the u.s. economy and global economy? that's something we have to make sure that people understand. when i talk to folks in delaware, how we can make businesses more successful frankly it comes down to the quality of the workforce. that's going on across the country. >> so from your perspective, how much of it is what you can do to make delaware competitive, and how much of it is caught up in this large i national economic challenge? >> i think to some extent the rising tide lifts all boats, but that being said, i don't think you'll find any governor prepared to sit back and wait for the national economy to get better on its own. we compete with each other all the time, but it certainly helps when the overall economy is growing. >> scott, the republican

after fighting for fairness, is it the rich riding highest in the obama economy? i'm christine romans, and this is "your money." it was just two weeks ago when it seemed the president had won his latest battle. >> the way business is done in washington has to change. >> but with an obama care fiasco bringing any momentum to a screeching halt, has he lost the war? a president whose signature legislation has turned into a national punchline. >> so if your doctor's only giving you three weeks to live, you are screwed, okay? >> whose spy agencies are tapping allies' cell phones. >> i guess the real question is who's in charge? the president doesn't seem to know if he's spying on our allies. >> the president says he didn't know about it. the only thing going the president's way these days, the economy. at least for those with the money to take part, the dow and the s&p 500 hit all-time highs again this week. corporate profits roaring back. and a housing rebound. but you need cash and good credit to get in the game. so what happened to promises of an economy focused on

the liberal solution for everything is to spin somebody else's money the problem is that in the obama economy this is those the not creating jobs are not somebody else's money it is these workers money they are earning this money they are making they are making the products they are doing the works and they're there making the profits that are being skimmed off the top for the fact cats who are working who are sitting around their desk or on my job carousel are sitting around their pool waiting for the devil to but david let me bring you in on this. why shouldn't we simply raise the minimum wage i mean we don't have to take it up to fifteen dollars an hour we're going to get back to where i was in one hundred sixty eight and work just fine i already went to college and ten cents an hour. i'll tell you what i think what happened in sea-tac is a perfect example of how we can protect workers without needing a massive one size fits all federally mandated minimum wage the people in this small town of twenty seven thousand took a look at these two industries they only applied the minimum wage incre

the liberal solution for everything is to spin somebody else's money the problem is that in the obama economy this is those the not creating jobs are not somebody else's money it is these workers money they are earning this money they are making they are making the products they are doing the works and that they're there making the profits that are being skimmed off the top for the fact cats who are working who are sitting around their desks are in my job parasols are sitting around their pool waiting for the devil to but david let me bring you in on this. why shouldn't we simply raise the minimum wage i mean we don't have to take a fifteen dollars an hour we're going to get back to where it was one hundred sixty eight and work just fine i already went to college and ten cents of our. i'll tell you what i think what happened in sea-tac is a perfect example of how we can protect workers without needing a massive one size fits all federally mandated minimum wage the people in this small town of twenty seven thousand took a look at these two industries they only applied the minimum wage increase

the people who are being hurt under the obama economy are young people, are hispanics, african-americanss. those who are struggling to climb the economic ladder. those are the ones losing their health care. >> now, how is senator cruz who's getting his own health insurance from goldman sachs acting like a populist? i mean, how is this go to wash? >> it simply isn't going to fly. the people will see through it. he's saying that there are people who don't have health care and he starts crying. if those aren't crocodile tears, i don't know what are. this guy has no feeling for those people or he would have stopped his effort to destroy it and make it work. i talked to bill frist some months ago. he was a former leader of the republicans. he said, jim, we should stop trying to repeal it and fix it. make it work. but cruz has none of that in him at all. it's all crocodile tears. >> and there's this relentless attack of misinformation about the law by the right wing media. watch this. >> there's too much health insurance. it covers too much. too many people have it. >> the government deciding

president obama in new orleans today steering attention toward the american economy. but what everyone is still talking about is the obama interview conducted by nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd where the president gave a kind of non-apology apology for the failures of obama care, mainly the millions of americans losing their current insurance plans thanks to the new law. >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. we've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and that we're going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this. >> weighing in on all this, cnbc's john harwood joins us from washington, d.c. john, good evening. okay, so i want to ask you, did he make an apology? that's my first question. and my second question related to the first question, what exactly was he telling us? i saw that piece so many times last night. what's he trying to say? >> it's a good question, larry. it was a sort of apology. but i

after fighting for fairness, is it the rich riding highest in the obama economy?our money." it was just two weeks ago when it seemed the president had won his latest battle. >> the way business is done in washington has to change. >> but with an obama care fiasco bringing any momentum t

nspeaking of jobs, president obama will speak on the economy. and the jones report for october is now out and there are serious questions about the impact of obama care on the u.s. economy. we'll break that down for you. >> one subbush an town is dealing with an angry swarm terrorizing the neighborhood. >> and the alleged victim of the nfl detailing explosive claims made by the time mates and what he said forced him from the team. >> as we are all aware, there is a lot of information out there and we know that the nfl coming down here to conduct a review. any comment we make at this time would be a disservice to the process that is about to take place. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. >>> fox news alert. president obama set to deliver remarks on the economy moments from now in

this is, what we are seeing here in obama's america and this obama economy is not the traditional americanand economic growth. during the reagan recovery by contrast you had months where we were creating 500, 600, 800,000 jobs a month. that is what a recovery in america should look like, not these paltry numbers. still the left, the white house, leftist media all celebrating this number as if it is some kind of a great achievement. it is not. charles: yeah. liz: it is a gimpy recovery. the roof didn't fall n i don't think we can cheer that. charles: said it is up to monica's point, the roof's falling in on friday, the roof's falling in on friday, and the roof's falling in on friday and god 2 doesn't. this guy is rocking. >> there is no shame anymore in washington, d.c. when it comes to -- charles: did you watch the market initially, emac? now there is the notion that the fed is going to start tapering a little bit. liz: we're debating that they do that by march. they may not. we're relying on the fed forward guidance, not ceo's forward guidance of their own earnings. charles: the fed is no

economy. we have a president that wants to raise taxes. obama care, the one thing good for the economy, it's hard to implement. >> what does that have to do with anything? >> we do know for a fact -- >> people can't even sign up for it. >> we do know for a fact that millions of people will lose their individual coverage, and they will have to go out and likely have to buy an insurance policy with a higher premium. and we also do know not just from the retail federation but from morgan stanley, this will be the slowest holiday -- let me finish. you're asking me to do the math, and i'm doing the math for you. >> to contribute it to health care is wrong. >> i know already, not factoring that in, charlie, it's the slowest holiday season in five years. >> but what does that have to do with health care? >>> ben stein hit the nail on the head. there's a malaise. that's the bottom line. there's a malaise, and we know it. this is 1979, 1980 all over again. so it does not help. that's why i said there are a lot of nails in this coffin. that's why i said i

tonight's question, do conservatives care more about fixing the economy or destroying president obamaor fixing the economy. text b for destroying president obama. to 67622. or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i'll bring you the results later in the show. joining me now is dr. frederick haynes iii, senior pastor at friendship west baptist church in dallas, texas. and reverend dr. otis moss iii, trinity united church of christ in chicago. gentlemen, welcome back. >> thank you, dr. dyson. >> thank you. >> why isn't president obama getting any credit for the things he's doing right? they beat up on this man as if he's done the worst thing since the, you know, the invention of the wrong machine that we can hit. what's going on here? why can't he get any credit? >> well, the bottom line is the president is making progress in spite of, and so as a consequence, you have 204,000 jobs created in spite of, and with that being the case, please understand, there's an underlying issue of race that oftentimes is not addressed. this black man in the white house. and on the other hand, you also have a

in this country, during his weekly radio address, president obama said the economy is benefiting fromhe energy outlook. >> just this week, we learned for the first time in nearly two decades, the united states of america produces more of our own oil here at home than we buy from other countries. that's a big deal. it's a tremendous step toward american energy independence. >> the republican response, senator ron johnson ridiculed the president's apology for the botched rollout. more than 4 million americans received notices their health insurance will be cancelled despite the reassurance everyone who had it could keep it. >> they were not slight exaggerations, they were statements fully vetted, coldly calculated and carefully crafted to deceptively sell your health care plan to a trusting public. political fraud echoed by house and senate democrats. >> there's been an outbreak of meningitis in new jersey. because it's a strain not commonly found in the united states, federal authorities will allow the importation of a advocate sags approved in australia but not the u.s. a university s

obama tried. he tried to pivot today back to carbon and the green economy. stuff on that, the republicans have got to say, look, they made you promises on obama care. they made you promises on green jobs. the stuff doesn't work. obama thought his popularity and his celebrity status, bill, was going to translate into policies working that even europe today is saying they don't work. big government plans aren't working. sorry about my voice by the way. >> that's all right. i know you are waiting for a doctor to see but you can't. no mislaura has a battery of physicians following her around. >> thank you. >> last question, a minute left. have you called the president a liar on your program? are you calling him a liar? >> well, i actually had to go down to my old law school and give a speech a couple of nights ago. i started to think about this in a legal term, right? i said what he is really guilty of is fraud and the inducement when you promise something to someone as you are going whether obama gives out a lot of candy tonight. there are too many tricks and n

obama tried. he tried to pivot today back to carbon and the green economy. ies any more stuff on that, the republicans have got to say, look, they made you promises on obama care. they made you promises on green jobs. the stuff doesn't work. obama thought his popularity and his celebrity status, bill, was going to translate into policies working that even europe today is saying they don't work. big government plans aren't working. sorry about my voice by the way. >> that's all right. i know you are waiting for a doctor to see but you can't. no mislaura has a battery of physicians following her around. >> thank you. >> last question, a minute left. have you called the president a liar on your program? are you calling him a liar? >> well, i actually had to go down to my old law school and give a speech a couple of nights ago. i started to think about this in a legal term, right? i said what he is really guilty of is fraud and the inducement when you promise something to someone as you are going whether obama gives out a lot of candy tonight. there are too many

. >>> president obama used his weekly address today to tout the ways the american economy is improving>> obama: our business versus created 7.8 million new jobs in the past two months. the american auto industry has come roaring back with 250,000 new jobs selling high tech, fuel efficient cars that the world wants to buy, and they're leading the charge in a manufacturing sector that has added jobs for the first time since the 1990's. a big reason why our businesses sell more goods and services made in america than ever before. >> the president also highlighted that the u.s. has reduced its dependence on foreign oil. for the first time in 20 years america is producing more oil than it buys from other countries. >>> the wife of an 85-year-old veteran has asked for the release of her husband. she said we've had no worth on the state of his health, no word if medication was delivered or why he has been detained. the family feels there has been some misunderstanding leading to his detention. >> well, you can well imagine how distraught the family is, and right about this time particularly h

and this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> one thing that's working for president obama, the economytoday the dow jones trill average crossed over the 16,000 point mark for the first time ever. keep in mind where it was when this president took office. on january 20th, 2009, the day george w. bush left the white house and barack obama moved in, the dow was closed that day at 7949. it was lower before his policy starts working. hitting 16,000 today means in less than five years of the obama presidency, the dow has more than doubled. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." when is a family squabble not just a family squabble? when it's the cheneys and liz cheney is trying to unseat mike enzi next year. cheney is running as a tea party supporter all the way. that includes coming out opposed to same-sex marriage. something even dick cheney is in support of. here she was yesterday on fox. >> i do believe it's an issue that's got to be left up to the states. i do believe in the traditional definition of marriage. >> your sister mary who is married to a woman put out this post.

are you asked to do more than the economy than president obama? i am boosting the economy i don't know. it seems like an odd thing to be an indicator of the economy on the whole. those are the things you are going to do regardless of how well. >> but you will do more when you don't have a job and you don't have prospects. >> are you going to vegas. you will bet the house on black 31. >> i don't know. i think if you are sitting around and you want to -- >> i hit 31 the last time i was in vegas. >> i don't think you are checking the balance on your account to see if you can get the hooker tonight. >> i got the pole dancing routine down. >> i agree. if you are low on funds you don't have a partner. you just settle for whatever is on cable. >> that's like people who like doing that stuff lose their family and jobs and houses because they don't care. they don't seem to care. >> or they become mayor of toronto. >> as if you are not one of those people. >> look, i had a lucrative few years. >> we look at the alcohol stocks and the tobacco stocks and they

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economy. it's still there and it's still bad. president obamaromised a robust economy and he forgot the row part. >> and the bust. >> i think the chance of changing this bill is nonexistent. is there enough you could put into it to make it palatable for the elections? >> and is there enough in it that's so damaging that we can survive through another administration to fix this? >> the damaging thing -- we'll find out. if you're right about this, then i think it's going to be terribly costly for the democrats. if you're wrong, then it won't be. >> i have a question. where's occupy wall street? this is a corporate bailout. corporate bailout of big insurance companies that apparently the democrats hate, so where's the protest? >> well, we know they're not showering, that's for sure but one man who knows a lot about this is bill o'reilly. so we're talking about a weakened president. touched a little on what greg was just saying and references the economy. take a listen. >> when a president shows weakness, his administration comes under siege. all ki

it's free trade, voluntary trade, self-interested trade, and a free economy. but obama care, of course, is exactly the opposite. it's rce. and from force, only wealth and destruction can follow. that's exact lay whatwe are seeing inbama care a couple months in. >> let's do this, julie. i want to roll the president obama reading a letter from a woman in washington state that's just so happy she was awarded affordable health care. listen. >> i was crying the other day when i signed up . so much stress lifted. that's what the affordable care act is about. >> now that woman signed on to healthcare.gov, and there was a glitch. the washington state center called her and said,you'u're no getting $250 per month health care. you're getting $600. >> that was a huge disappointment. i just felt very embarrassed. >> it's not affordable. >> in defense of this woman, she got completely screwed by the government. despite your demeanor and the fact that this woman is not getting health care, she didn't have it before, eric, so she's no worse off today. >> i'mot gleeful she didn't get he

economy. president obama's pick to lead the federal reserve says she'll continue the pro manufacture growth policies, janet yellen was questioned by the senate banking committee. some republicans expressed concern that the bond buying strategy is creating a market bubble. she'd be the first woman to head the central bank. janet yellen said she'll do what's necessary to create jobs and get america on track. >> the objective of our policy is to broadly benefit all americans, especially those who were seeing harm come to them and their families from high unemployment in a recovery that has taken a long time and been, frankly, disappointing. wall street apparently liked what they heard from yellen, the dow rising to a record high on thursday. the s&p gaining 9 points. iran's nuclear program has slowed dramatically. that is the finding of the atomic energy agency. negotiations aimed at further curbing iran's nuclear activities resume next week, president obama spoke thursday about the consequences of iran getting nuclear weapons. >> it would be not only dangerous to us and our allies, but destabilising t

economy. president obama and congressional democrats have proposed small increases in the minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped workers. but the proposals haven't moved far in congress. and just a few minutes from the capitol building, some workers allege that the federal government isn't complying with its own wage laws. this is the ronald reagan building, home of dozens of federal agencies, including the department of customs and border protection. at lunch, the food hall fills up with tourists and government workers. >> the restaurants in this food hall are actually federally contracted businesses, but the workers here claim they're owed nearly a million dollars in unpaid wages. >> many workers allege they didn't get overtime pay, some say they got even less than dc's hourly minimum wage of $8.25. >> antonio venagus started working in the food court in 2010. >> is this how you treat american workers? >> no! >> in may of this year, antonio spoke at one of several one-day strikes in dc to protest wage theft and low wages. the next day, he was arrested, and detained by immigration officia

health care system out and just had it as his own economy it would be the sixth largest economy in the world and barack obama has tried to socialize it in a strangest way possible by giving money to big corporations so this sounds like corporatism to me my friends it's not really a continuation of george w. bush because bush never tried to take over the health care system and bush didn't take fifty to seventy five percent of the fourteen million consumers who are buying insurance out of the market and destroy their health insurance policies the woman that the president trotted out in the rose garden as the great success that california woman who was going to pay be able to have obama care she thought she was going to be one hundred thirty dollars a month in premiums she's going to have to pay six hundred thirty seven dollars she's a single mother and she will get no tax credit this is your food stamp president brought to life so there's no comparison here whatsoever ok well maybe there is daniel i mean i want to get back to you're go ok kimberly that you can really going to get it out first go ahead you can

the obama administration wants to control the private economy, marketplace, right?e doing a lot of things to make the marketplace response stible to washington, not to competition. so, is that the right way to go? or do you allow the free marketplace to take it where it wants to take it? >> well, first of all, i think we have a pretty vibrant free market in this country. second, let's not cut social security. let's not cut unemployment compensation. let's not cut these kind of things which are keeping people on medicare and keeping people to the extent that they can stay in the middle class, these are the kind of things dependent on. >> nobody is talking about cutting medicare or social security. >> sure they are talking about it the president himself has even said that he is open to cuts in medicare. >> the only cuts in medicare would come for people who are wealthy. over a certain threshold. so, let's not propagandize the issue. let's get back to the vision that president obama has as compared to your former boss, bill clinton. clinton had a fiscally irresponsible

owe, the economy. obama's america.some things probably about all the people on food stamps possibly, if you have some very hard core consumers of conservative media. there is a sense that has been sold to the consumers of that media, that people on food stamps are essentially milking the system, getting one over. what's remarkable about this, that general narrative is not new in conservatism at all, the idea of this fear of slackers sucking at the feet of government. specifically attached to food stamps, this is a fairly new thing. this wasn't particularly controversial or polarized for a long time. the enrollment has gone up, because there air lot more poor people in america. this is one of the big talking points right now, obama, the food stamp president. here is the guy that is the face of food stamp slackardom for fox news. >> the 29-year-old has chosen the life of a beach bum. he gets by with a little help from his friends and you, the taxpayer. >> my ebt snap card. it has the coast of california on it. >> one of

long-term more efficient for the economy, more cost effective and it could have the effect of bending the cost curve and, yeah, there's a cost right now and i think certainly the obama administration would have believed three years earlier when it conceived of this idea the economy would be in better shape and so the couple ten tth would have been able to withstand it but ultimately talking about more long-term efficiency and productivity in the use of health care dollar that ends up being positive, i think. >> we got to go. >> all right. gentlemen, thank you. >> todd, give me a call. we'll talk about it off line. >> love to hear more about the greek yogurt indicator in the economy. 35 minutes left in the trading session here with the dow up 126 points today. we're back in record territory. >> so you think stocks are hot right now. how about big coins hitting their own record highs. the bitcoin is back bigger than ever. is it a currency can you depend on? i'll have to weigh in on this debate, bill. you know where i am on this. >> yes, i do. >>> also, the news on tesla's earnings broken on this program yesterday. shares are being crushed today after the disappointing

president obama says the economy is improving even if it's owe veer shadowed by gridlock and the messy of his health care law. the president says jobs have been created t auto industry is recovering and deficits are falling. he's trying to be up beat in the wake of his administration's failure to create a functioning health care website. >> our businesses have created 7.8 million new jobs in the past 44 months, another 200,000 americans went back to work last month. the american auto industry has come roaring back with more than 350,000 new jobs. jobs churning out and selling the high tech fuel efficient cars the world wants to buy. >> the republicans texas congressman mike burr guess says they should scrap obama care. he says some people who like their doctor may lose their doctor. president obama's coming back to the bay area. he will be in san francisco on monday. the president will visit the betty aung recreation center to push for immigration reform. the president has visited eight times in 2 1/2 years. stay with abc 7 for complete coverage on monday. you can also get updates on t

economy. the obama administration credits president obama's efforts to boost fuel efficiency in cars. but many energy experts a the higher volumes come despite president obama's policies, not because of them. >>> stocks were up across the board today. the dow gained 71, the s&p 500 added 14, the nasdaq picked up 46. >>> toronto's infamous mayor, rob ford, admitted today at a city council meeting he has bought illegal drugs in the past two years. he also professed a zero tolerance policy for drugs and gangs. nearly the entire city council urged ford to take a leave of absence, but ford says he could not change the past and would continue as mayor. >>> still ahead, using birth control as the carrot for the stick of obama care. we'll explain that. >>> first, secretary of state kerry's negotiation skills are put to the test here at home. we'll be right back. >>> during his confirmation hearing today, jay johnson said this about al qaeda. >> i believe that the way i'd characterize it, we're moving to a third