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labor secretary robert reich will be here for commentary. >>> and the conspire ra cysts says charles ogletree is covering up the president's past. he will set the record straight in an "ed show" exclusive interview. share your thoughts on twitter #ed show. we're right . >>> welcome back do "the ed show." from the state that gave us the show me your papers law targeting hispanics, well here comes another doosy. arizona now wants to enact a "show me your prescription law" targeting women. it would force women who wished to have contraception covered by their health insurance plan to provide proof that they are taking it for reasons other than preventing pregnancy. so here's the bottom line. your boss would have the power to ask you why you're on birth control and you'd be required to tell your boss. he or she, what the deal is. and if your reasons, if they clash with your boss' religious beliefs, your boss is allowed to fire you. yesterday, the arizona state judiciary committee endorsed the bill. now it move ts on to the senate. the bill's author, republican it when debbie lesco said i

joining me now is robert reich, former secretary of labor under president clinton and professor at ucley and author "after shock" good to have you with us tonight. >> good evening. >> a lot of lessons in these charts. what do you take from this, what is the number one thing voters and liberals should take with this up against the argument all the spending that is taking place. >> the biggest argument and in fact the biggest learning from those charts is that ronald reagan and george w. bush both had huge booster rockets getting out of their recession. that big rocket was congress, republicans and democrats, joining together and providing a huge amount of spending that will generate and accelerate the economy out of the gravitational pull of the recessions. barack obama gets the opposite. in the clinton administration i was proud to be a member of that administration and we suffered the same fate as the barack obama administration. mid-term election, first term of the bill clinton administration, congress taken over by the republicans and suddenly, they talk about austerity, balancing

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dionne and robert reich, i think we're all rooting for bob kerry tonight. thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks. bye-bye. >>> coming up, bob kerry will actually get the last word tonight. in fact, he's going to sing the last word. you have to see this. >>> and mitt romney is fighting again with mitt romney. he said something unrehearsed today and his campaign had to tell him how wrong he was. melissa harris-perry joins me on the ball of confusion that is mitt romney. >>> and later, two senators join me. senator patty murray on the fight against the blunt and then the united states senate and a virginia senator who fought against the invasive pre-abortion testing. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, we'll have an exclusive interview with the woman who was refused communion by the priest at her mother's funeral, because she lives with a woman. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometimes a good deal turns out to be not such a good deal. but new bounty gives you value you can see. in this lab demo, one sheet of new bounty leaves thi

account occluded systems overfishing the power plant sausan there was an effect crisis in decades dr robert reich that's a professor of history and culture at the hiroshima since she says the japanese people were betrayed. the psychological burden on the people is brutal and on the people who remain in the contaminated areas and the people who've been evacuated who will likely never return to their homes the psychological burdens are intensely brutal these people have been betrayed in repeated ways they were betrayed by being lied to that nuclear power could never have a problem that these kind of accidents don't happen and when the accident did happen it was hidden from them for three months that they were meltdowns they were lies for three months that they were meltdowns they were not told where the contamination and teams from the explosions were going so these people have been lied to repeatedly now they've had their lives pulled apart and they are full of worry and anxiety over the health and welfare of themselves and their children and their families. meanwhile the whole world joined japan

i talked to robert reich. mr.tary, adding new jobs is obviously a good thing, there's still millions of people out of work, the president is certainly not out of the woods, right? >> no, there's still a long way to go, anderson, there's been about $10 billions either lost since the beginning of the recession or that should have been made up. even if the job market continued to do this well for the next, for the next five years, we would still just about get back to where we were before the recession started. >> and rich, rather than addressing today's job numbers, romney makes the argument that obama promised to keep the jobless number below 8%. but he's got to come up with something more than that, doesn't he? >> i think what he said a week and a half ago was a better argument. the unemployment numbers were better numbers. you can't root for higher unemployment. but if romney would say, look, the unemployment rate might go faster if businesses had more confidence in what was over the horizon. every time they hear

i talked to robert reich. mr.retary, adding new jobs is obviously a good thing, there's still millions of people out of work, the president is certainly not out of the woods, right? >> no, there's still a long way to go, anderson, there's been about $10 billions either lost since the beginning of the recession or that should have been made up. even if the job market continued to do this well for the next, for the next five years, we would still just about get back to where we were before the recession started. >> and rich, rather than addressing today's job numbers, romney makes the argument that obama promised to keep the jobless number below 8%. but he's got to come up with something more than that, doesn't he? >> i think what he said a week and a half ago was a better argument. the unemployment numbers were better numbers. you can't root for higher unemployment. but if romney would say, look, the unemployment rate might go faster if businesses had more confidence in what was over the horizon. every time they he

i'm joined by robert reich. good to have you with us tonight.oes paul ryan have any clue about what he's talking about when it comes to running the numbers on the budget? >> i think he has a clue. i think he's trying to hide where all these big tax give aways to the rich are going to come from. he also says in that budget that a lot of the savings will come from medicare. he's going to cut medicare reimbursements for the elderly and take a big swipe out of what's called discretionary spending. that includes food stamps, pell grants and all things that go to lower mid class and poor families. this is reverse robin hood. >> ryan's budget cuts spending on programs ranging from food stamps to border control. gutting all of these programs, what do you think this would do to the economy, to the base? the flow of goods and services and the transfer of the money, what do you think? >> we've seen what happens to this economy when the middle class, lower middle class doesn't have enough money to keep going. the ryan budget will make the economy much worse

. >> robert reich, always a pleasure. good to have you with you us on "the ed show." >> that's "the ed show." the rach rachel maddow show starts now. >>> our studios here in new york city are at 30 rockefeller plaza, which is awesome 30 rock is a convenient thing to remember and they shoot saturday night live here. they shoot that show a few floors up from this studio. one of the weird implications for us as employees that work in this building is when we leave here to go home on friday, or sometimes even on thursday, there's often a very tidy little cue outside of the door, little line outside of the door of our building. people sleeping on the street, waiting to get in to see "saturday night live." as a general rule, the hotter the musical act or host, the longer and the younger the line outside of our building. the hipper and more mow the musical act or host the more likely the line of people outside of the building gets confused with an occupy protest, which happens all the time. but it is one of the cool things about

. >> reporter: economists like robert reich say the demise of cash has been happening ever since our financial fortunes could first be told by a piece of plastic with a magnetic strip. that was half a century ago. now? >> 95% of the transactions in america or more are... now have nothing to do with physical pieces of paper or coins. >> reporter: think about it. taxis, parking meters, tolls, even girl scout cookies. >> did you know we do a debit card now. >> reporter: they don't require cash anymore. all proof, argue some, that cash's days are numbered. >> 22 and 32 years from now, will cash still be here? i think we could put it in the grave already. >> reporter: author david woolman in his new book "the end of money" argues the biggest knock against cash is that it's costly. >> it's really expensive to move it, to store it, to secure it, inspect it, shred it, redesign it, resupply it, and round and round we go. >> reporter: it already costs the u.s. government almost twice as much to make a penny and a nickel as they're actually worth. but that's only one cost. cash, woolman says, i