in september 2010, so at the time of the election i am talking about, the rasmussen poll, 61% of the u.s. voters said cutting government spending and deficit would do more toro create jobs then president obama's proposed $50 million infrastructure program. pretty evident then, from people's opinion at that time, the election of 2010 sent a clear message that the american people wanted congress to stop wasteful spending. so, it did not take long for president obama to get the message. a weekly address on november 13, 2010, calling upon congress to stop earmarks. he said "given the deficits that have mounted over the past decade, we cannot afford to make these investments in things like infrastructure, education, research and development, unless we are willing to cut what we don't need". i am going to give you a further obama quote. it is a very long one. it is coming from a democrat president. "i agree with those republicans and democratic members of congress who recently said that in these challenging days, we cannot afford what are called earmarks, those are items inserted into spen

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probably why half of americans don't think he is mentally fit to be president according to a recent rasmussen poll and it's not exactly surprising it's been 7 weeks since his inauguration and it's hard to shake the feeling that he's being hidden from the world in a basement and when he is released into the public chaos ensues he forgets the names of people he himself appointed like defense secretary lloyd austin there who he recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former generally keep calling him general my mind the guy who runs about if you know his handlers panic any time anybody might god forbid ask him a question and he constantly loses his train of thought while reading from a teleprompter it's been 2 months and he has yet to give a news conference or answer any meaningful question the one time he did agree to some live questions the white house instantly interrupted the fee and it's not like the media is even giving him a hard time with the questions it's not like with trump for they were doing their journalistic duty by constantly grill

platforms online giants are the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the united states earl rasmussen of the eurasia center which promotes relations between america europe and asia says that it makes it harder for politicians to reform the sector it's the political theater basically pieces the pieces every want to make it look like they're doing something and then maybe they maybe they will do something but i doubt it i don't see them doing away with section 230 which gives basically immunity and gives big check the right to do almost anything they want without any liability right now that big checks are not really in support of freedom of speech and and the truth that it's it's their agenda that's that's basically driving the train right now both on the political side and and the information side to the public the hearings going to continue because hearings are attention grabbers a lot of this stuff is is targeted for for political me big tech needs to be reined in to some degree. what what could be done is one i think looking at section $230.00 and the relevance of that perhaps look

but a poll by scott rasmussen taken just last month found that a third of democrats still believe that the 2016 election was either stolen or the votes were not counted fairly, citing everything from russian interference to computer voting machine scandals. i will remind you that democrats in the house of representatives objected to the results in seven states. both sides have an enormous number of people who have basic questions about the fairness of our system. 2/3 of americans. so, what do you do when you have such a divided country? you have bipartisan legislation. in two thousand two, we had the help america vote act, a bipartisan piece of legislation passed by a republican congress and signed by president bush. chris dodd, the democratic sponsor, said this build is when every election bill should do. at the same time -- this bill does what every election bill should do. it makes it harder to vote and harder to cheat. in contrast, when hr 1 passed in the house of representatives, not a single republican voted for it. you have to ask yourself, how long with these changes be until t

it's my great pleasure to introduce dennis rasmussen who wrote "needer setting sun" how the founders of the united states weren't as optimistic as it working out as we are today toward end of their lives and we'll he discussing that with the history of that whole period of time and why they felt that way. so, welcome, dennis to the commonwealth club of california. >> thank you for having me. >> so, the first thing that we can talk about is the setting. >> caw talk but the constitutional convention and the constitutional convention which is where people get their name, the founders. had to have been involved in that if they didn't they were a little bit like suspect as founders, even if they did a lot of other things. but prior to that the articles of confederation which caused the interest in the -- having a constitution that worked a little better and the push was, how much more powerful a federal government can we have when we kind of prefer that the states have a lot of power, but we realize these articles are not powerful enough and then there was the sort of fashions that were i

rasmussen of the arrays a center expert group says it makes it really hard for politicians to try to reform the sect. it's a political theater it's basically a piece of the a piece of everyone it makes it look like they're doing something i mean maybe they maybe they will do something but i doubt it i don't see them doing away with section 230 which gives basically immunity and give big check the right to do almost anything they want without any liability right now the big checks are not really in support of freedom of speech and and the truth that it's their agenda that's that's basically driving the train right now both on the political side and and the information side to the public the hearings going to continue because hearings are attention grabbers a lot of this stuff that is targeted for for political me big tech needs to be reined in to some degree. what what could be done one i think looking at section $230.00 and the relevance of that perhaps looking at regulatory action like we did with like we do with a lot of energy companies. but keep you posted on it that's it for now

on the platforms online giants of the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the us all rasmussen of the eurasia center expert group says that makes it hard for politicians to reform the sector. it's a political theater it's basically a people to a piece and every want to make it look like they're doing something i mean maybe they maybe they will do something but i doubt it i don't see them doing away with section 230 which gives basically immunity and give big check the right to do almost anything they want without any liability right now the big checks are not really in support of freedom of speech. and the truth that it's their agenda that's that's basically driving the train right now both on the political side and and the information side to the public the hearing going to continue because hearings are attention grabbers a lot of this stuff that is targeted for for political me big tech needs to be reined in to some degree. what what could be done one i think looking at section $230.00 and the relevance of that perhaps looking at regulatory action like we did with like we do

but a poll by scott rasmussen taken just last month found that a 3rd of democrats still believe that the 2016 election was either stolen or the votes were not counted fairly citing everything from russian interference to computer voting machines scandals and i'll remind you that democrats in the house of representatives objected to the results in 7 states certifying those results so both sides have an enormous number of people who have basic questions about the fairness of our system 2 thirds of americans so what do you have what do you do when you have such a divided country you have bipartisan legislation in 2002 we had the help america vote act it was a bipartisan piece of legislation passed by a republican congress and signed by president bush. stressed dod the democratic sponsor said this bill does what every election should bill should do at the same time it makes it easier to vote and it makes it harder to cheat where americans we can do both at the same time in contrast to that when h.r. one passed in the house of representatives not a single republican voted for it not one s

a brand-new poll by rasmussen shows that half the country, half, 50%, is now worried that joe biden is not physically or mentally up to the job. that is half the country. it's not just sean hannity. we are willing to say earlier than others, because maybe others were being polite or they were too afraid to say it. late night, by the way, television, the trump hating comics, they say they are struggling to find material about biden to talk about, really? that's probably only because of your pure political bias and rage against trump and why your shows are mostly failing. look at this poll today. only 34% of americans are very confident that biden is physically and mentally capable of being president. this would be a crisis in confidence. with poll numbers like those, a typical administration, what they would do is they would send out the commander in chief for a lengthy press conference to prove to the american people, and to the world, that our president is healthy, engaged, energetic, has full mental acuity and full mental fitness. but the biden administration is doing the opposite. t

according to a new poll from rasmussen, a lot of americans agree with me.ol 75% of all voters, they support simple basic voters i.d. laws, that's 69% of african-americans, and look at this poll from the "atlanta journal constitution." 74% of georgians support a photo i.d. requirement for absentee ballots. this has nothing to do with race. it has everything to do with integrity and the confidence in our elections. here with more, fox news analyst. we learned that statutes exist in most of the states, that said partisan observers could observe. check that off the list. that didn't happen. we know there were two signature verification standards, voter i.d. standards in georgia. we know the state constitution in pennsylvania was ignored. can't do that. you've got to change the constitution, and we know laws in wisconsin and michigan were ignored. so how important are all of these issues and what's the priority working with state legislatures or washington? >> look, working with state legislators and making sure hr-1 doesn't get through because theh we would basically have to take that battle to

. >> it's a new rasmussen poll just three days ago. >> rasmussen. okay. all right.essica, you're there on the ground in texas. have you seen -- has there been a problem? it seems like a solution in search of a problem, and i have to tell you the research i've seen does not show a large portion of black voters or people of color supporting legislation that makes it more difficult for the ballot box. what have you seen being a legislator in texas? >> i mean, there is absolutely no evidence of voter fraud. you know, our indicted attorney general has spent millions of dollars on a voter integrity unit. they've come up with virtually no evidence of voter fraud yet we're seeing tons of legislation that has been filed in the texas house that is aimed at creating barriers and trying to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist. we keep asking questions what's the problem and what are we trying to solve? we can't get any answers. >> before i bring you in, i want to go back to chuck. this has been such an issue for the republican party, okay? so let's assume that the republic

yesterday's brand-new rasmuse 'em poll revealing half of the country is now worried that -- rasmussen poll revealing half of the country is now worried that joe biden is not up to the job. a brand-new op ed in the "washington times" reads, "it's time to question biden's mental health. " this is why we got that biden team, leaked the fluff piece to politico about the so-called behind blitz. let me be clear. there won't be a blitz. remember the hardware story yesterday? here is a hammer. mr. president, will you answer the question? all right, thank you, guys of g. we have to go. it'll be that kind of a blitz. president trump talked too much to the press every night. multiple public, unscripted events. by the way, i don't think donald trump was ever asleep before 1:00 a.m. during his entire privacy and i -- presidency and i doubt he slept over five hours his entire life. that was a blitz. the so-called biden blitz on the other hand will consist of him giving a few speeches written by his staff kept relatively short along with heavily orchestrated and controlled public outings, but it won

it's my great pleasure to introduce dennis rasmussen who wrote "needer setting sun" how the founders

fabrice part there is with us now chief strategy officer of rasmussen global former director of policy planning at nato he's on skype from something there in spain thank you for your time sir they must be breathing a sigh of relief at nato headquarters in brussels knowing that the past 4 years of complete unpredictability from donald trump should be over yet it's like a family reunion after 4 years of absence so obviously there is a site of relief for a b. on both sides but i think we're not going to wait until you know it's going to take not so long time before we're going to see differences between the u.s. administration and some european allies is it and i asked our correspondent early this but i want to know your view as well is it difficult at all for the united states to almost convince nato or are they able to really differentiate between the fact that this is a different administration and that you know they can trust this new administration effectively. yeah i think from the beginning president by i don't know any statement he made it clear that the u.s. commitment to nato is

. >> tonight, on the communicators, founder and ceo rasmussen to johnny on what her company is doing to close the gender gap in technology area >> i have had a job since i was 12 years old. in 2010, i found myself running for congress and is part of that, i was going into computer science classrooms and i would see lines of boys clamoring to be the next steve jobs. i knew the jobs in computer science pain pretty well. -- paid pretty well. to me, it made sense, i was like where are the girls? people like me who would get a shot one of these jobs. that is when i decided i wanted to build a program to teach girls. ♪ announcer: you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's table television companies in 1979. today we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span2 viewers as a public service. ♪ announcer: next north carolina governor roy cooper and

host: jim, we read you the pole a moment ago from rasmussen.goes to show the different polls have different results, from cbs, as congress prepares to take up d.c. statehood, national support grows. they are polling on this as the house prepares to take up the issue of statehood for the district of columbia, the new national poll finds 64% of voters think that d.c. should be a state, a record high of support conducted by the data for progress progressive advocacy coalition for democracy for all of 2021, shared with cbs news, a couple of comments on social media where things are, people think of that question on d.c. becoming a state. this one says i have to say no but we need to find a way to fully enfranchise residents, more power per capita, power just want unfair power. virginia, maryland, or others. william in middletown, connecticut, chris in new jersey says that what's best for fellow citizens, if statehood is the best way to ensure adequate representation, seems like a no-brainer. it should be estate, at least the area around capitol hil

recent "rasmussen poll" shows 52% of the country, 52%, think that biden may not be fit for the job.ly what you're talking about. we can't have a president still hiding in his basement. that is effectively, figley what they're doing. they cut the feed not once but twice. once when he was talking to the democratic caucus. one he was doing a roundtable. you have to wonder what is it that they are hiding there are other questions raised by this too. why is kamala harris so prominent all of a sudden? who is in charge? this is sort of the great guessing game in washington right now. who is setting the agenda? who is deciding what policies they should push forward on and what they shouldn't? you know, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that biden is not in charge of this white house. stuart, he needs to get out in front of the american people and reassure them because this is a horrible situation. not just for biden but also for the country. stuart: wouldn't it be nice to see the white house press corps, the media itself, demand a press conference, demand answers to the ques

rasmussen has him at 90%. we'll have to look more closely at that. it seems an extraordinarily irrelevant occurrence. obviously we have a guy that tried to against the united states. benedict arnold had been invited to cpac after he switched sides, we would probably be running a two-hour rant as well. >> jonathan lemire, what did you take from it? . >> first of all, joe, the first part of it was low energy. they were some were breathing sighs of relief. they thought he wasn't going to go scorched earth. you made the point this is the most trump crowd you can imagine and he pulled only half of that straw poll. right now he is still shaping the present and future of the republican party. he made no mention whatsoever of the events of january 6th. but repeated time and again the big lie. the idea of course that he won, falsely claiming that he won that election. that will make it difficult for republicans to ever turn the page. . >> also, jonathan, the speech and how -- >> sure. they of course has been studiously trying to ignore all things donald trump