did not know that they could do you have the explosion of the deficit always as long as there is polling data with deficits, franklin roosevelt railed against the deficit with you look one level lower at the polling data spending on international affairs americans oppose every single thing, any tax you name or spending other than for it -- foreign-aid and the majority is against it. it is a strong lips' service and the response ravel's whenever it imagined possible. and sure the president doesn't agree with this, but in my view, it wasn't just they did not focus like a laser beam when the economy was nowhere near as bad as broccoli on inherited, he was doing so many things at once but one result it was very hard for the electorate to see the forest for all the trees what did heal health care reform have to do getting people back to work? not really. so people were watching this burst of activity but not receiving the excellent job the obama team did in preventing a much worse fate. i think i talk too long long, let's see what questions. if five people have heard of lee for guess i am in troub

as long as we have polling data, this was back the least into the '30s, i am sure it was earlier than that as well. it is bad to have a budget deficit. franklin roosevelt railed against that against herbert hoover, for example. if you look at the polling data, you also see there was a single exception of spending on international affairs. foreign aid, single exception, americans oppose every single thing that might reduce the deficit. and if any piece of spending and plurality and the majority of americans in this. the response to this crisis to blow up two levels of debt that we never imagined possible, that certainly did not do us any good. most controversially, and i'm sure the president of the united states does not agree with us, but in my view, it wasn't just that he focused on the laser beam of the economy. the economy was nowhere near as bad as the one barack obama inherited. he was doing so many things at once. he accomplished an incredible amount of stuff. but one result of that was it was very hard for the american electorate to see all of these things popping up. like with

think that that's just an interesting piece that we should keep in the mix as far as can we get polling data, can we then -- you know, when you come back before us, talk about the communications and marketing strategy and say that, you know, this program, is it the light green offering, whatever it is, also holds the promise, either option holds the promise of additional jobs of, you know, a more secure system of your own community install program, your barn raising, whatever the language is that is going to be appealing and get people to understand that this is really a community program that we're trying to support. i also just, i really want to thank the staff for coming before us with this because i find it very helpful to be able to look at this in a different kind of way. i asked a lot of questions, what about marin, same kinds of questions president torres was talking about around, you know, they have a light green/dark green option. there is a reason more people are involved in light. we have been coming up against this issue around rates. you know, local power has brought a big valu

but if i don't you look at the e polling data, you always see the exception of spending on international affairs, foreign aid. single exception. americans oppose every single thing that might reduce the deficit. any tax you name, any piece of spending other than foreign aid and the plurality of americans and typically the majority of americans is against it. so a strong lip service of -- aversion to deficits, and the response of this crisis did blow up the deficit to levels that we never imagined possible, and that certainly didn't do it any good. and then, finally, most controversially -- and i'm sure the president of the united states doesn't agree with this -- but in my view it wasn't just that he didn't focus like laser beam on the economy. remember the old bill clinton strategy, saying in 1992 when the economy was nowhere near as bad as the one barack obama inherited, he was doing so many things at once. i mean, give him credit, he accomplished an incredible amount of stuff. but one result of that is it was very hard for the american electorate to see the forest with all these trees

and a former communist the choice for italians voting in a general election with apprehension of poll data. and syrian opposition fighters a rebel over peace talks point only does efforts to end the civil war and refusing to meet even that store interest lies. the latest news and the week's top stories in the weekly on our c with me you are a very warm welcome to the program. the death of a three year old boy in the uighurs has caused a storm of outrage and the son to the side of russia it was revealed this week that the russian abductee died whilst in the care of an american foster family the boy's adoptive mother claims it was just an accident but most are suspects the taller might have been killed from in the city trick innit. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas mark seemed was me and known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news. just that kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old marquis him and his younger brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a

and, you know, i think that the polling data shows that the american public now, you know, understands that we should be investing in drug prevention and drug treatment rather than in massive incarceration and that the drug war has been an abysmal failure. this won't end mass incarceration. we are going to have to end the harsh mandatory minimum sentences imposed for virtually all types of crimes and we're going to have end the forms of discrimination of people released from prison and guarantee that once you have been branded a criminal or felon you are unlikely to be able to survive in the economy and cycle in and out for many years or perhaps the rest of your life. >> yeah. michelle, i mean, you raise that point of what happens when people get out of jail. if we lived where there's universal access to voting for all convicted felons released, what do you think the political debate would look like then? would it be significantly different? >> well, i think, you know, it would be different if, you know, all those who have been branded felons actually had, you know, the right to vote.

see politicians doing the right thing, saying the right thing, it is almost always because their polling dataight thing also happens to be the politically convenient thing. there's nothing more rare in politics than a politician doing something he or she knows will cost politically, hurt in the polls. we saw president obama do that with health care reform, pushing it through congress with a majority of americans opposed to it in the polls. the president knew that would cost him support, but he did it anyway because he believed it was the right thing to do. a typical presidency doesn't include such political bravery about anything. most political careers never involve political bravery, never. so when we see it, we must salute it, we must encourage it or we risk never receiving it again. we saw it a few weeks ago, but many of us, including me, didn't realize we were seeing it at the time. we thought we were watching a smart politician take the lead on the national issue of the day and do the right thing in a way that would benefit him politically. but now that he's dropped 15 points in the pol

we don't have exit polling data, but if we look at it nationwide, if we look at african-american population3% in this country. it was about 13% of the electorate in 2012. the hispanic population is about 16% but only 10% of the electorate in 2012 nationwide. >> we've also seen, democratic primaries, when you would expect and you'd have an hispanic candidate, and we've seen this in texas, there are a lot of times when an anglo candidate will defeat a hispanic candidate. it's not just the population not matching the voter number. voter engagement seems to be an issue. >> right. there's six congressional districts that have at least 30% of the voting population age being hispanic and black. and in five out of six the black candidate prevailed usually not democratic primary, and so it comes down to that electorate, the latino electorate isn't matching the population, but in some of these races there isn't a latino candidate will be elected because these officials understand that that voting age population can be a mirage and doesn't look like a great opportunity for a latino candidate. >> it se

if you look at the polling data from univision and others, the minute he got into self-deportation, both asian-americans and latino-americans said don't talk to me about jobs. deport me -- my grandmother is going to go home? don't talk to me. >> jose, i thought it was fairly -- a fairly blunt assessment of where the republican party stands as far as, you know, minority votes and the road ahead. >> let me -- let me give you mother quote, again, from emfoque, the sunday telemundo show. if that isn't reversed, we will be an extinct political party. mccain said that yesterday on telemundo network. i have to bring it back to the issue here of -- when we talk about whether republicans get some benefit over the democrats or vice versa, the reality is there are 11 million people -- i'm sorry to beat this as a drum, but there are 11 million people in this country. the vast majority of whom are honest, hard-working, have contributed and continued to contribute to the economy, to the culture, to this society on a daily basis. many of them, a majority, have u.s.-born children. this is what really it

that can be done in a number of places as we have seen from some of the polling data, a number of republicanistricts. on guns you do exactly what you did, what mothers against drunk driving did in the 1980s when they flipped president reagan on drunk driving laws. this is old-fashioned retail political organizing in republican districts where their numbers are weak and where they should be according to all public opinion surveys, they should be bucking the republican leadership, which is still beholden, which is still being held hostage by this extreme tea party minority that has very little public support out there. >> so, michelle, the president, he's doing well in the polls, they know they got to fight the outside game, they seem to be ready, the american people are with them. he's handling the fight over chuck hagel. it looks like hagel, despite the sort of abuse he got yesterday will be confirmed. but then it's also jack lew. we have heard that may be contentious, john brennan. steven chu announced he's stepping down. that's another opening to fill. not to mention susan rice's. at some

there is ample polling data this week that shows republicans are on the wrong side of the american mainstreamn it comes to the sequester, when it comes to spending, when it comes to compromise. when you look at this larger arc, i think it's fair to say when it comes to the message war, democrats are coming out ahead. and that matters, of course, next week. republicans are thinking if they go through with this and the sequester hits, then they'll be able to say well, this is the white house's fault. it's the obama sequester talking point they've been so fond of. but all available evidence suggests that the public will blame republicans, not democrats, if this happens next week. >> all right. let's hear from transportation secretary, outgoing transportation secretary ray lahood. he was explaining today why this is so important. here it is. >> i would describe my presence here is one word -- republican. they're hoping that maybe i can influence some of the people in my own party. >> david, is there a chance some republicans can talk sense to the rest of this party, or is this going to happen? >>

if you look at the polling data from univision and others, the minute he got into self-deportation, both and latino-americans said, don't talk to me about jobs, deportment, you expect that my grandmother is going to go home? don't talk to me, and you couldn't break through, and look at the last ad that the obama campaign ran in spanish for the last few weeks of the campaign, it was just mitt romney. >> and, jon, i think the republican party understands that and that's why i think there is going to be immigration reform. the president wants it. it's really his top legislative priority. the republican party wants it for the reason that it would like to retain, regain the presidency at some point but congressman ryan in his interview with you used the phrase "delicate balance," and there were two delicate balances here. the first is the balance of whether the degree to which the president inserts himself into the process, the legislative process, or whether he holds back. for the white house there's a little bit of a rerun of health care here where they held back too long and let the proces

i see polling data. americans are much more favorably inclined on that issue, to give them a legal status and a half to citizenship. by the way, that path to citizenship will not be easy. a lot of advocates for hispanic organizations will not be happy about how tough it is. but everybody who came in this room has probably broken a law, whether there were caught or not. if you were, you paid a penalty and moved on. you are not permanently penalized for breaking the law. the climate has changed. american opinion has changed. elections have changed. we still have people who are adamantly opposed, but i am guardedly confident, and i am working with people who are effective. chuck schumer is effective. i hate him, but he is effective. >> i am sure that just went out on twitter. >> dick durbin is effective. marco rubio is effective. lindsey gramm has been in this thing almost as long as i have. he is effective. all of the people engaged in these negotiations have the respect, i think, of their colleagues. >> w

guest: look at the exit poll data. the idea of the role of government various. es. you can see that young people that were not supportive of the president are split on the role of government. 50% believe there is more of a role that government can play. 70% think there's more of a role that government can play in helping to solve issues. host: we will bring some high school students into the conversation this morning. promoting your upcoming series about the first lady's. in ohio thiss is morning and some students will be joining us. the school is 50 miles northwest of cincinnati. we want to thank those students for joining us this morning via skype. a special thank you for preparing the students this morning and time warner cable for sponsoring today's event. tom is in new york. hi, tom. good morning. caller: good morning. i feel the youth are getting more involved. the liberals and democrats have them bamboozled that they are for the middle class. they tax the middle class and give to the poor. host: what do you think republicans can do? caller: they have to get m

and when you got back the polling data, you found out that people really cared about them, and responded to them. i thought it was a very effective speech. >> before we go, dean baker, what's going to be the talk at the water cooler where you are tomorrow? >> the minimum wage. it's something, not as much as i would like to see, but that's real to people. >> sara, you would agree? >> i think the talk is going to be immigration. that's the one thing out of this speech that is likely to be accomplished. >> and carl, i think we have to keep in mind, the underlying philosophy of the president's speech. as dean indicated, a lot of these proposals are recycled from earlier speeches, last year's speech. but the president's belief is that that's what i campaigned on, i have a mandate from the american people and i'm going to try to make it happen. >> is it he transition now to a campaign-like exercise where this has continued to be supported in public? >> he begins that campaign tomorrow morning. we're going to have to leave it there. thanks to our guests tonight. you want to tune into cnbc tomor

and we know from polling data that the vast majority of the american people, 60%, 70% believe we should have a balanced approach both in revenues and in cutting spending. so we have reached out our hand. we have reached out our hand in an effort to shake hands with republicans, but they have not reciprocated by reaching out their hand to close the deal. so it's still possible, but it's only possible if the other side is willing to make some compromises. time is short. i urge colleagues to put ideology and this partisanship aside, stop the sequester, tackle these budget deficits in a way that allows us to invest in a growing economy and a stronger middle class. now, a lot of people say, well, if the sequester kicks in, people aren't going to feel it right away. well, maybe not tomorrow night. maybe not even saturday or sunday. but beginning next week when the food safety and inspection service starts furloughing people and we begin less inspections, maybe the week after that when our air traffic controllers begin to be furloughed because they don't have enough money and air traffic begin

discretionary spending at the federal level will come under heavy pressure, precisely because of the polling data. >> the question was also directed to professor lessig. >> one of the most troubling things about the polls, a confounding factor about americans, which is, there was a poll last summer that 80% of americans believe that every campaign finance change has been designed with the purpose of protecting incumbents. when you say congress has an idea and the idea is public financing, when the public says they do not like it, is that because of the attitude 80% of us have or is there something about the particular poll? i have seen scads of polling. depending on how things are framed, you can get the answer you want and i want, which is a very strong support for public funding. everybody knows this but nobody says it. why do we trust what the polls say? it is a terrible way of understanding what americans would agree about. if we had a deliberative poll, where people had the chance to understand the issues and were given the information, what would they say? i would bet one month's salary tha

discretionary spending at the federal level will come under heavy pressure, precisely because of the polling data. >> the question was also directed to professor lessig. >> one of the most troubling things about the polls, a confounding factor about americans, which is, there was a poll last summer that 80% of americans believe that every campaign finance change has been designed with the purpose of protecting incumbents. when you say congress has an idea and the idea is public financing, when the public says they do not like it, is that because of the attitude 80% of us have or is there something particular poll? depending on how things are framed, you can get the answer you want and i want, which is a very strong support for public funding. everybody knows this but nobody says it. why do we trust what the polls say? it is a terrible way of understanding what americans would agree about. if we had a deliberative poll, where people had the chance to understand the issues and were given the information, what would they say? i would bet one month's salary that people would say they supported change

and if you look at the public opinion data you will see what he support the balanced approach. that pollsublicans in congress for where we are right now, yes, you can find polling data. there's no question and the president has the bully pulpit. >> more popular. >> more popular. no question he does. in you're a second-term president and whole idea is looking towards a legacy, if the economy teeters again, if the unemployment rate goes up, less money coming into washington, he could win in the short term and lose in the long term if they don't get a deal and the economy heads south. >> you can kick the can down the road when it comes to the forced spending cuts but you can't kick your legacy down the road. if he wants to get something done on everything else, on immigration, even on the government shutdown on -- >> on guns? >> on guns, energy, climate, he has to figure out a way to talk to these people and, you know, you talk to people in the white house, they argue that they are not going to talk until they start seeing -- that the republicans aren't negotiating and there's no point in ti

i see polling data. americans are much more favorably inclined on that issue, to give them a legal status and a half to citizenship. by the way, that path to citizenship will not be easy. a lot of advocates for hispanic organizations will not be happy about how tough it is. but everybody who came in this room has probably broken a law, whether there were caught or not. if you work, you paid a penalty and moved on. you are not permanently penalized for breaking the law. the climate has changed. american opinion has changed. elections have changed. we still have people who are adamantly opposed, but i am guardedly confident, and i am working with people who are effective. chuck schumer is effective. i hate him, but he is effective. >> i am sure that just went out on twitter. definitely under 140 spaces. >> dick durbin is effective. marco rubio is effective. lindsey gramm has been in this thing almost as long as i have. he is effective. all of the people engaged in these negotiations have the respect, i thi

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so, to the extent that that informal poll was representative of community sentiment, that's just a data point for you. i also want to add, and i didn't state it in my opening that you've heard from 4 or 5 people who are suggesting we do other things, that there's been fairly strong community support from a number of individuals and organizations in writing for this option. so, just another data point to get a sense of where the other community sentiment is. >> what we're doing today, does that preclude the possibility of leaving that disk in there? >> we would be entering into a lease and we would immediately start constructing the shaft. in order for us to have the shaft built in time for the machines to get there, we need to start that. our original plan was to start that work in january of this year. so, we're already behind on that. so, before we start impacting the critical path, that is not a decision that would be made in a year. it's a decision we'd be making now to move forward with the demolition and the excavation to build the shaft. >> director big nan. >> if we could discus

we do not have a survey data for the early period but since this started polling in the 1930's, it has been very clear americans are reasonably tolerant of the income tax and will leave it meets some standard of fairness easily defined in terms of ability to pay. those things have done the whole job. the original tax was very small. top rate of 7% and extension of almost $100,000, adjusted for inflation. it was designed to to make this tax system fair or fairer. some look back and say we can learn about tax policy today. look how light it was. it is important to remember that just five years after the tax was enacted, the top rate was 77%. those same lawmakers who thought 7% was good in 1913 thought 77% was good five years later. there is a war in the middle and not the big difference. wars have a tendency to change it. world war i dramatically exchange -- dramatically changed the tax. in the war comes along -- another war comes along. world war ii transforms the class tax to a mass tax. number of homese filing increased tenfold. one scholar later observed the income tax changed its mo

zoomt i feel like in some ways one poll suggests some movement, but then there is other data that suggests there isn't that much. you've seen these numbers. 83%. ban on assault weapons, 56%. ban on high capacity clips, majority of favor. large majorities favoring all of these things, and, yet, if you talk to folks who were involved in writing the legislation or thinking what will pass, you know, maybe the high ammunition clips, maybe broadening background checks, that looks like probably the best one. the majority of american public on all three of those issues in a strong majority on one of them saying, yes, we favor this, but congress does not appear -- i would be stunned if the three principles laid out were part of the broader gun control package. there is a disconnect there, and, you know, it's ease where i to lay the disconnect at the feet of the nra, and they have so much influence. that's part of it. i think there's more there. i'm kind of interested as a reporter to find out what it is because there is that disconnect. >> it's not only in southern states. it's not just in western

data. pew did poli polling on 0 abort. roe should not be overturned, 50%, 60%.o zero difference on men in this position. one of the things that makers does really well and to be lauded for, it shows the backlash. the women in the backlash movement. phyllis flashily is very prominent in it. how do you understand your sisters on the other side of this battle? >> well, i think that the right wing promises women safety and protection. and many, many good things that women crave, in return for giving up or autonomy and yourself self-authority. but to go back to a minute what you were saying about abortion or reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right and that that affects everything about a women's life. it's true. it's our longevity. it's our health. it's our ability to beet indicated. that's absolutely true. but it is the fundamental of the nation, too, to be able to control how many workers, how many soldiers, to influence what class and what race they are. so, it is -- it is fundamental. and totalitarian regimes around the world start there. >> right. >> t