steve israel, the chair machine of the congressional democratic campaign, he says, snapshot!n the heart of new york city, if the democrats can't win there, ask the labor unions to help him out at the end, so from a candidate perspective, a problem? >> absolutely. you have a chest pain. could be heart attack? could be heart burn. no matter what, cut back on the fats, jog more. there's only one sensible way a party reacts to this. there's only one to run and that's scared. >> is it the president? >> no, it's not the president. it's lots of things. the economy, some local matters that congressman israel talked about. but it is true that steve israel told you this, there was an yaup state in the same district that hadn't gone democratic in 120 years. >> so what lesson is there? it's an urban area. what's the lesson? >> economy and jobs are the number-one issue in this country and people expect their elected officials to perform and to put forward policies that will change the way our economy works. that's what house republicans have done. the president gives speech after speech a

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steve israel, the chair machine of the congressional democratic campaign, he says, snapshot!e heart of new york city, if the democrats can't win there, ask the labor unions to help him out at the end, so from a candidate perspective, a problem? >> absolutely. you have a chest pain. could be heart attack? could be heart burn. no matter what, cut back on the fats, jog more. there's only one sensible way a party reacts to this. there's only one to run and that's scared. >> is it the president? >> no, it's not the president. it's lots of things. the economy,

joining me now is steve israel of new york. steve, good to have you with us tonight. i find this absolutely amazing. there's going to be some people out there that say president obama caved. i don't see it that way. i think that he has done what every other president has done. i want to come over and talk to the country and i want to talk to the joint session and he's been denied -- >> how do you read this tonight, congressman? >> i don't know why anybody is surprised is. the republicans have been in the majority of the house of representatives for 239 days. in 239 days they have not lifted a finger to help a single small business create a single job. now, will they not only lift a finger, they're turning a deaf ear to the president's ideas on how to create jobs. the fact of the matter is this, they want to wait a day, unacceptable. we will talk about it, we will fight for jobs for the middle class and working americans, every day, any day, any time. whenever they want to do it, we'll do it, we're fighting for jobs and they are fighting for tax cuts for the richest of

. >> joining us now, steve israel from the great state of new york, congressman, thank you for joinings. >> happy anniversary, three years on the air. congratulations. >> thank you very much. i forgot and got a nice love letter to the show, written to me by my dear old dad this morning. it was nice. thank you. when republicans talk about medicare, their policy as far as i can tell is to kill medicare. what they say is they want to save it or strengthen it. now we have the president saying he, too, wants to strengthen medicare. does that give you the willies at all? >> no, we always said consistently from day one, we will negotiate to improve, strengthen mid care. we will not negotiate to end medicare. it is not what the republicans say, it is what they have done. paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that

tonight, michael papantonio and steve israel on the developments. a leading republican claims the president never understood the meaning of 9/11. find out who's in the zone tonight. and even chris christie is ripping eric cantor for his ridiculous stance on disaster relief. >> we don't have time to wait for folks in congress to figure out how they want to offset this stuff with other budget cuts. >> tonight we're going to flood ravaged new jersey to talk to phil pascall. good to have you with us tonight. interesting developments late in washington. for the first time, a speaker of the house has refused to let the president of the united states address the nation from the people's house. very unusual to say the least. today president obama announced he wanted to unveil his much-anticipated, much talked about jobs package one week from tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the president set the speech for exactly the same date and time, 8:00 p.m. republicans are set to doe bait on this network from the reagan library. conflict, yes? resolution, should be pr

. >>> new york congressman steve israel is the chairman of the democratic campaign committee, joining me in studio this morning. nice to have you here. >> good morning. >> the president's new proposal, the $447 billion jobs plan, the buffet rule, the $3 trillion deficit reduction package. they are being embraced by democrats but explain, is this a sign of democrats really stepping in line and getting in sync with what the president wants the message to be? >> well, this is a matter of democrats in the house of representatives and president obama advocating pure common sense. this is what the american people want. you have a bunch of house republicans who on their first dismay congress raise their right hand and took an oath not to the constitution but they think they took an oath to protect and defend tax cuts for millionaires and corporate tax loopholes. that is not what the american people want. they know we have a debt. they know it needs to be reduced. but they also want the sacrifice to be shared and they want the program to be fair. that is exactly what this proposal does. >> if

. >> joining us now, steve israel from the great state of new york, congressman, thank you for joiningary, three years on the air. congratulations. >> thank you very much. i forgot and got a nice love letter to the show, written to me by my dear old dad this morning. it was nice. thank you. when republicans talk about medicare, their policy as far as i can tell is to kill medicare. what they say is they want to save it or strengthen it. now we have the president saying he, too, wants to strengthen medicare. does that give you the willies at all? >> no, we always said consistently from day one, we will negotiate to improve, strengthen mid care. we will not negotiate to end medicare. it is not what the republicans say, it is what they have done. paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that is to end medicare.

[applause] >> congressman steve israel of new york, who is trying to get democrats elected, is trying to play this one down. >> it is not pretty good about what is going to happen -- not predictive of what is going to happen. >> that is what democrats said after scott round shellacked -- after scott brown at shellacked martha coakley for the seat held by ted kennedy. it republican also one in nevada. what do these elections tell you, charles? "conduct unbecoming of a congressman"? you archimedean bid this is the canary in the coal mine. on the issue of the economy and obama, it is a real message that democrats are in trouble nationwide. >> democrats and republicans are in trouble nationwide. the electorate is furious with both sides. 27% want to throw everybody out, 28% are frustrated. 30% wish they would compromise. -- 38% which they could compromise. the number doing the best they can, 8% . for what is wrong with washington, they put it on the republicans, although there is shared blame for democrats as well. nobody is safe at this cycle. >> jonathan? >> democrats have to be worried

. >> new york congressman steve israel is chairman of the democratic national campaign committee and joins us now. before we talk about the jobs bill. i know you just came from a briefing. is there anything new you can share with us about the intelligence on this possible threat. >> i did just come from a classified intelligence briefing. governor ridge is absolutely right. the threat is credible. it is specific. it is not confirmed. what impressed me about this briefing and i cannot go into specific details, what did impress me is you had homeland security counterterrorism, fbi, other law enforcement working together and talking to us about the efforts that they're making in a very coordinated way to identify that threat. take a look at some potential suspects and keep us safe. i'm about to get and a plane in washington, fly to my congressional district in new york. i expect that i will see overlays of additional security at the airports and other transportation centers. the combination that integration of keeping us safe at our airports and the incredible intelligence work that is

steve israel chairs the democratic national campaign committee and is with me now. its appeal. buffett rule taken social security off the table. some would say it's a cop out. >> it's not a cop out. it's not populist. it's the right thing to do. these republican house members have to make a decision. they took an office to protect tax loopholes and protect rights of millionaires and be in a lower tax bracket or did they take an oath to protect and defend the middle class? those are stakes right now. these republicans have to make a choice of who they are fighting for and we'll hold them accountable for that choice every single day. >> is this a political issue or an attempt to do something about jobs and fix the economy. if there's no vote for it you are establishing a political issue going into an election campaign. >> the republicans have said no to everything that we have proposed. we have to fight for the middle class. this is not a partisan issue. this is not a political strategy. this is the right thing to do. $3 trillion reduction in deficit in a fair and bal

but it is true that steve israel told you this, there was an yaup state in the same district that hadn't gone democratic in 120 years. >> so what lesson is there? it's an urban area. what's the lesson? >> economy and jobs are the number-one issue in this country and people expect their elected officials to perform and to put forward policies that will change the way our economy works. that's what house republicans have done. the president gives speech after speech after speech and people aren't buying it. they didn't buy it in new york and by the way, if i'm a senate democrat, i'm watches last night's results and thinking the president is going to campaign run his re-election campaign against a do-nothing congress? the democrats control the senate. i'm thinking, oops? >> jim, paul, thanks for coming in. that's all the time we have. tomorrow, more on governor perry and his foreign policy question. anderson cooper and "360" starts right now. >>> good evening. is michele bachmann's latest misstep the beginning of the end of her campaign? by most accounts bachmann did well in the republican

it does not alter our plans for taking back the house, as steve israel also said. i do not get too and ball in politics under the =--- too involved in politics under the dome. we are optimistic about the recruitment of candidates, the raising of money and the issues out there. that is positive for us. we also have to take it back to the fact that this is about jobs. the president also jobs initiative is one that is important to our country. that is an issue that we would like to have resolved and i have as a political issue. we need to pass the american jobs at. let me see. we had skiing, tennis, baseball football. that is my sports analogy of the day. >> plenty of democrats differ with the president on the policy of the jobs act. why did you think that is and how can the bill pass if you have democratic members of congress who disagree? >> what you are suggesting is anecdotal. i am on the appropriations committee. a plural anecdote is not data. our caucus is unified in support of the american jobs at. ct and the fact that it is paid for. they may differ with provi

look at what they want us because in israel steve i think that often exhaustive answers are not given because the knowledge of these phenomena is very limited. companies want to give you a look at this situation increases the number of suspects i understand the authorities are croce much more not to give any explanation other than totally deny my they've got like i think about the u.f.o. they have never been categorically denied by anyone raji but if ever there was a huge fraud but can be used at a microscopic level it is u.f.o.'s. to pay out or the told why isn't there appropriate research by announced by a corporation or company let's do serious research and tell me where these came fields on it was an airplane will fly.

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however, israel's prime minister predicting that request will fair. steve centani has more. >> the u.s. could find itself in the uncomfortable position of having to veto a palestinian attempt to gain recognition at the united nations even though the u.s. supports palestinian statehood. u.s. insists negotiation is the only way to solve the region's problem but the palestinians say there a problem with that. >> we cannot continue to negotiate while the israelis are taking our territory the same land that will be our state in the future. >> reporter: the west bank settlements have doubled and israel says it's called a moratorium on and palestinians didn't stirl didn't come to the peace trouble and they have a problem with mahmoud abbas. >> he has made, but hamas is a terrorist organization that has fired thousands of missiles at israel. it kills a for annihilation of the people worldwide. >> reporter: these disagreements and others have led to the current standoff. palestinians plan to present their a appeal for member to the general assembly on friday. negoti

the rebels say they done enough talking with our steve this is from the front by one of colonel gadhafi and his loyalists remain determined to the end. israel is to allow security forces to shoot up palestinian protesters who are preparing to march in support of their bid for statehood out of the u.n. later this month tel abuse claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed by arming settlers in the west bank for self-defense artie's a policy is across the relevance there. in some quarters there is talk of a into florida that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the two seculars of whom there is some four hundred thousand living in a man's that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank are bracing themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police and not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some is seeds and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this end we're being told that they have the most hated aides resigned around everything from them to the waste bank and what this means is that palestinians who app

steve. >>> 4:43. the israeli government approved construction of 1100 new housish units. the new housing will be added to an existing jewish settlement. the move comes despite pleas for israelstop expansion of the settlements. hillary clinton called the action counter productive. >>> this morning president obama will reach out to latino voters during an internet forum. the president will push his jobs plan saying it will benefit latino workers and businesses. the event comes a week after the democratic national committee said it is reaching out to spanish language voters as part of the push to promote the president's jobs plan. >>> postal workers are hoping americans saw and heard their message at protests. >> america's postal service, get to work on capitol hill. >> this rally was held outside congressman's office yesterday. the workers want congress to rescue the postal service. they say changing a law that requires overpayments to their pension funds could cause hundreds to close. >>> the suspect in the tucson shooting rampage faces a competency hearing today. he is accused of killing six people and wounding congress woman gabrielle giffords. today the hearing will deter

. >> steve, i want you to listen to what peggy noonan said today in the "wall street journal" about rick perry's statement about israeln his first foreign policy foray the gop front-runner looked like a cheap, base-playing buffoon. as i said, mr. obama can't win this election, but the republicans can lose it by being small, by being extreme, by being -- are we going to have to start using this word again -- unnuanced." there's peggy noonan calling the leading republican presidential candidate a buffoon on possibly the single most important foreign policy issue for a candidate to get right, israel. >> well, the premise of the speech, of course, is that the united states is appeasing the palestinians in the same week where the united states government will be vetoing, you know, the palestinian aspiration for statehood. so you know, at a very basic level the speech made no sense. and i think that she has called that out. and there has not been great reaction to the speech. and as we move forward into the campaign, i think expectations will clearly, you know, continue to rise for governor perry to show that he is able to

steve. >> turning up facts and looking into a deal that went back in 2009. peter doocy is live in washington with the story. hi, pete. >>> we sold israelrget penetrators often known as bunker busters back in 2009. the pentagon is saying we are not going to comment on the press reports but make no mistake about it the united states is committed to the security of israel and the israel's ability to maintain its military edge. the bunker busters are designed to take out targets buried underground. they would be handy if israel decides to strike iran's nuclear facility. and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton say they boost israel's arsenal and the fact president bus president od the sale says that could signal that he is ready to let israel take care of his dirty work. >> the obama administration will not use force, despite the fact iran is close to achieving a nuclear weapons cap capabili. if it falls to escapeddial to undertake that as they have done in the past against syria and iraq's nuclear reactor, i hope they have the capability to do this and i think bunker busters who add to the prospect that they could attack success