robert rice served as secretary of labor under president clinton. his new e-bike is called "beyond outrage." steve moore is a respected writer for the wall street journal. i mean it, gentlemen. let's go to the fight here. it does seem to be a classic american fight. the president is making it here, not saying i've done a great job as president, but saying, no, i'm on the right road. the road is fairness. we should not be out there giving tax breaks besides the obama tax cuts. when we have to, will it go towards poor people or not? >> i mean, mitt romney is the poster child for wealth and power and privilege in this country. he also fell into the trap, it seems to me, of endorsing paul ryan's budget which, as you said, gives a huge tax break to people at the top and also cuts medicare and medicaid and food stamps and a lot of things that the middle class, the lower middle class, the poor depend on. kind of a reverse robin hood budget. we're going to see a lot more of this. we're already hearing and we already heard in december a great speech, i think

. >> robert rice, do you know robert rice. >> i do. >> is he a communist, right. >> communist slash socialist a guy who secretly adores carl marks up there in cambridge. >> he is a communist. >> we will leave him at communist for this evening. >> obviously joshing around. but -- >> -- well, apparently not so obvious, william. apparently not. >> he wrote a little piece in the he wrote a piece on the huffington post web site why anyone should care that bill o'reilly calls me a communist. before you jump in here the title of the piece should be while i use mr. o'reilly came in in my piece had he not probably his piece would not have been read. is he not exactly a big attraction there. >> bill: i read the story and he took what bobs and i were saying seriously. he tried to convince the huffington post readers that we were actually accusing him of being a karl marx lover. >> i think he knew exactly what was going on. complete joke. real people in. >> you were laughing. >> eviscerates you for calling name. economy is bad name in his world. he evoice rates you then. calls you intellectual bore. >> w

joining us now is cnbc contributor robert rice. author of "aftershock" and republican senator budget committee member ron johnson. obama sounds like the new deal great society xwiltsment guy and mitt romney, on the other hand, private market, free enterprise opportunity guy is in the way it will work in the full? >> i think so. i think it's a very clear choice in terms of the path that president obama has taken this country on, which really is about government control, growing government which has been growing, and our deficits growing at unsustainable level and the path we would take. the path of prosperity, lower government, more reliance on the private sector. get debt and deficit under control. a clear and stark choice. and by the way, president obama will dig his heels in, try and salvage obama care. we want to make sure it's repealed or defunded and the implementation of obama care stock. >> you think president obama is making a mistake, laying this out the way he is. don't you think people know it's not the 30s, not the 60s,

thank you. >> thank you, robert rice. good to see you.red from a job he never should have taken. >> i screwed up. i screwed up really big on this. >> sounds humble, right? but he wasn't all apologetic. we'll hear what else the combative cable host is saying about his latest breakup. you are watching "cbs this morning." cold feels nice on sore muscles, huh? you know you could just use bengay zero degrees. medicated pain relief you store in the freezer. brrr...see ya boys. [ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on. i bet they can't wait to bite my chocolaty ears off. whoa. wait a minute where'd you guys come from? edible arrangements bouquets beautiful like flowers, but unforgettably delicious. pineapple bunnies? visit, call, or go to ediblearrangements.com [ man ] get the 20 piece mcnuggets. what? that lovely girl, caught your eye? 20 piece mcnuggets are only $4.99. you offer to share them. a conversation begins. that's pretty smart. i been around. [ male announcer ] 20 piece chicken mcnuggets only $4.99, just one of t

former clinton administration labor secretary robert rice says there's this trend. >> fewer and fewernt relatively safe full-time jobs. more and more contingent jobs. >>reporter: rice says company are increasing profit by holding counsel the cost of labor. researchers at uc berkeley found that 93 percent of the economic gains from 2009 to 2011 went to the wealthiest one percent. corporate profit spurred wall street as wages for workers have stagnated. >> that's good for profit in the short-term but over long-term what will happen is those people are customers and if they don't have the money, well the business is not going to do well. >>reporter: something henry ford understood. he wanted his work investigators become customers he would have the pay them enough, to afford his car cars. government could raise tax on the rich, expand tax credit, research development. >> it can be done buff to have the political will to do it. >>reporter: there's the rub. republicans in the house pinpoint to the stimulus spending and rising debt. and important government intervention? under the radar. th

. >> bill: tell me about it i said to charles, robert rice, i called him a communist with lou dobbs we laughing and on huffington post and he actually write as column about it. he is so indignant. you are absolutely right. everyone knew you were making a joke. your main point. >> serious point here i think. two kinds of vice presidential possible candidates. there is the established guy who has been around. you take mitch daniels, is he a successful governor. he was head of the management and budget. he has had a great career. he doesn't need the vice presidency. in fact, it's really for him a step down. the vice presidency is the second worst job after the prince of whales. he would say no and that would be it. the other kind of candidate suspect and comer. marco rubio maybe a paul ryan. look at nixon, appointed by eisenhower young senator in 1853. he went on to be on the national ticket five of the next six cycles. a dominant political figure. it's hard to say no if you are the up and comer. also harder to resist the pressure you would get from the party that would say, look, you hav

robert rice is author of the new ebook "beyond outrage."g the program. >> hi, alex. >> i want to touch on something that you wrote last week saying, american consumers in short are hitting a wall. they don't dare save much less because their jobs are so insecure. they can't borrow much more. home values are dropping and many are under water, more on their homes than homes are worth. secretary reich, i wonder what you make of the buffett rule. do you think it's going to help america's middle class? >> well, certainly it's going to help in term of making sure that we have enough money both to pay down long-term deficit and mick sure we have enough money to invest in education and infrastructure, alex. the buffett rule is a minimum. i hope democrats don't get trapped into making -- that should be the maximum. no, it's a minimum with regard to the very healthy ought to be paying at 30% tax rate, but if we went back to before the 1981 tax cut of ronald reagan, for 30 years, the richest people in this country paid a minimum of 70%. even after all

i saw a piece by robert rice, former labor secretary on one of the blogs. his own blog over the weekend about what the job numbers mean and his take is that -- just want to see if you concur with this that one of the reasons that employers aren't hiring is because there's no demand, right? in terms of if i can use his word, employers won't hire without enough sales to justify the additional hires so the consumers have to come in to make the sales but the people are not coming in to buy the products because they don't have the cash. >> right. and also because we've been telling consumers for what, three or four years now don't borrow. deleverage. get out of debt. in addition, you know, i keep going back to the fact that some of the consumers demand in 2007, 2006, even toward the end of -- until the end of 2008 was artificially created. it was based on a housing bubble that was incorrect, that was overly optimistic, that had prices way too high. the people were borrowing against the people. the wealth effect we were talking about i think back then, so, you kn

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robert caro on sunday, may 6th. >>> former secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the u.s. leadership role in the world. she examines u.s. foreign policies with countries such as iran, iraq, and china. she also touches on domestic issues such as the educational system and immigration reforms. this is about 55 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone, ladies and gentlemen. i'm pleased to welcome you to the heritage foundation for this timely and important event. it is timely because events overseas are constantly raising questions about our national security, as we saw yesterday with the north korean test launch of a ballistic missile. and timely as well because foreign policy has been a topic of great interest during the presidential debates. it is important, of course, because americans are debating how we should respond to events not only in north korea but in afghanistan, iran, syria, and other hotspots. and there are many questions raised by the actions of the obama administration, actions that suggest that the president wants to change the way the united states engages the world. there's the pivot to a

robert gates is going into business with two other top officials from the george w. bush administration. he'll be joining an international consulting firm headed by condoleezza ricend steven hadley. >>> and the philippines condemning a local d.c. council member, marion barry for marks critic of a local hospital hiring filipino nurses. barry said at a council hearing that many hospitals hir immigrants who are nurses particularly from the philippines. he said instead nursing schools in the district should train local residents to work in the industry and address nursing shortages. d.c. has preferential hiring practices for local residents. back with more "washington today". ♪ >> always agree on the little things and then you hold on the big one. hell i've done this so often in conversations with people. i'm say i'll concede that but don't give them the big one. >> president richard nixon in 19a