you know the american public is nor more state to be than he was before the. immigration regulations and the prison system explosion that we've seen a lot of good point you're making here some of the really interesting that i didn't know about i just want to get in one more question and that is i mean we saw this report and we showed one of the largest. corporations in this industry which is geo but there's also the corrections corporation of america c.c.a. why is it that when we talk about immigration reform and when we talk about this on political platforms and you know all the pundits debate in the mainstream media why is this part of the story and not being told that these major contractors are working with the government and profiting off the arrests of illegal illegal immigrants. well it would only hear about it because everybody basically has been conditioned in the greater american public to. simply assume that anytime you're talking about individuals that are being incarcerated you're talking about the worst of the worst and there's not point discussi

well it we don't hear about it because everybody basically has been conditioned in the greater american public to. you know to simply assume that any time you're talking about individuals that are being incarcerated you're talking about the worst of the worst and there's not point discussing you know what the reality is what's going on i mean who who's making profit on the mystery of these individuals the assumption is that this individuals are very dangerous criminals as we mentioned earlier and therefore they deserve to be locked up you know he put only there are and so the last thing you won is to begin to inform the american public that somebody is making huge profits that incarcerating the ambac human pit is.

>> that's one of the things president obama has to explain to the american public. he announced swhuneds like a change in strategy, bringing american troops home, but americans can see violence on the ground continues and there's even a talk making a deal with the taliban, the group that allowed al qaeda safe haven in the first place. i think a lot of americans are confused as to how that is keeping us safer, even as we're told by u.s. counterterrorism officials that al qaeda's on the ropes. you've got to explain to the american public, ok, why do we still have so many people in harm's way and if we're changing the strategy and shrinking the footprint, tell us how you're going to do it. chris: howard, larger question to tie this up, here we are ten years later. ten years from the heart. pictures are all over television. they will be over television weeks ahead. the memory of that that's so alive in the icon ography of those pictures, towers coming down when we thought they wouldn't. trillion dollars, you're so smart about the aspects that we have done to compensate,

>> that's one of the things president obama has to explain to the american public. he announced swhuneds like a change in strategy, bringing american troops home, but americans can see violence on the ground continues and there's even a talk making a deal with the taliban, the group that allowed al qaeda safe haven in the first place. i think a lot of americans are confused as to how that is keeping us safer, even as we're told by u.s. counterterrorism officials that al qaeda's on the ropes. you've got to explain to the american public, ok, why do we still have so many people in harm's way and if we're changing the strategy and shrinking the footprint, tell us how you're going to do it. chris: howard, larger question to tie this up, here we are ten years later. ten years from the heart. pictures are all over television. they will be over television weeks ahead. the memory of that that's so alive in the icon ography of those pictures, towers coming down when we thought they wouldn't. trillion dollars, you're so smart about the aspects that we have done to compensate,

is in direct risk that the american public looks at this and says -- is there not a risk that the american public looks at this and says we want solutions, not argument? >> that would be logical, but if they're going to block everything to just not point that out is going to lead to continued gridlock. sometimes when you have a group, and it is not all republicans, but a group that seems in control and are so intransigent, the only way to break through is to say that you are causing the problem and letting our democracy than work. >> senator chuck schumer, thank you for joining us. among the members of the tea party that chuck schumer was so critical of is senator ran the pulte of kentucky. i asked him what he would make of the president's speech tonight. paul, tonight the president will propose packages. what is there that you will not agree with? >> i have not seen the details. i think a lot of it is the attitude towards business, with a stifling business in our country right now. it is that you cannot be in favor of cutting jobs unless that you like the job creators. everything that see

it is a legislative arena to try to come together to come together and do what the american public expect us to do. there are two cries sees confronting the american people and perhaps three. first of all, they are concerned about the fiscal posture of this country. they're right. we need to address that. secondly, they're concerned about jobs.

and that's just not being accepted and it's not being told to the american public. a lie. >> also the american people have to accept it as well. the cbs poll said 60% of americans saying, don't raise mys. the same percentage said, don't cut entitlements but i want my check. >> the bottom line is we can't afford ourselves. >> but at the same time, the treasury ten-year bond yield is 2%. this hasn't bothered the bond market. this is the least appreciated part of the story. as we all know, if this doesn't worry the bond market, i'm going to sleep well at night. >> and to add to that, greg, it's not as if we can't solve our financial problems. s&p, i think, made a very big mistake in downgrading us. but we have in reach much more than europe does, given our demographics, to phase in reasonable deficit reduction plans over the next 15 years to get us out of these problems and we could afford stimulus. we could all debate whether it's going to have an effect. but those are important themes to get out there that no one's really talking about. >> one other quick point. i alw

the where the obama administration targets people without transparency without sharing with the american public what criteria they're using to put these people on kill list we're seeing this horrible horrible violation of civil liberties and it's something that these c.l.u. is trying to draw so much attention to but unfortunately the media hasn't caught on to it i think the american public hasn't caught on to it so do i think that this is something that will last for a very long time i do and it does make it different from other instances in the house where we've been in war and you know the law fell silent well the thing is see i just don't believe maybe you might be able to slide that past american citizens but i just don't believe that the media out there is not catching this right i mean the a.c.l.u. hasn't been silent all throughout president obama's administration they've come out and they've spoken out against his policies there are other people other journalists a lot of civil liberties advocates this stuff is out there you don't have to try to find it and dig for it so so what's the ex

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the american public doesn't have such a high regard for the business community. the good news is it's not quite as low as members of congress, but for 10 years, the american business community has been on defense, for understandable reasons. this is a marvelous opportunity for american business leaders to step forward and do the right thing. it's not only self-interest, and by self-interest i mean the long-term implications of the cost of capital in this country, but it's also the right thing for the country. we talked about business leaders, business statesmen at c.e.d., and that phrase comes from pete peterson, the longest serving trustee. and for years, he has been urging business to step forward and address these issues. folks, now is the time. it's your moment. it's the right thing for you, your country, and for the business community. >> i would just say just to be kind to all of us, this is a very -- this is appropriate, and i have no idea what the business community is going to do. what people want to hear is you are going to endorse me if i am going to do

so those were two major reasons why we wrote about it and a third one to remind the american public. important part of our whole effort is the recommendations, and the recommendations still aren't enacted in many cases, and we wanted to remind people we're going to be a lot safer if we can get the rest of those recommendations done. >> host: and so it has nothing to do with timing. you wanted to time it with a certain event happening how? an election, for example? >> guest: the timing is the fifth anniversary of 9/11, but i think your observation is correct. there's nothing shockingly new in this story we've written. i do think, however, there are a lot of subplots on 9/11, and it's kind of fascinating. for example, one of the stories that has not been told publicly is how we got access, limited access to the detainees, the people that planned 9/11. that's a hugely interesting story. but for some reason the press just didn't look at it very carefully. the whole period of negotiations between tom and me on the one hand and the white house on the other, we go into some detail about tho

and you're completely right fear mongering is definitely the way that this is been sold to the american public so americans who do know about it are almost complacent and they almost feel like this is being done to protect their security and to protect you know their ability to be free americans want to hipsters out there that take pictures of buildings too before the show i want to mention one last thing though right so we see this erosion of civil liberties and the like you said it's going towards people are taking pictures of buildings and whatnot you see it every time you have to fly and go through the airport but there is another charge that came out the really really shocked me because all of this is supposed to be carried out and done under the auspices of investigating it terrorism but it turns out that the patriot act in fact has been used more for drugs if that comes to for these warrants that are delayed notice they've been used much more for drugs one thousand six hundred eighteen times and they have actually for terrorism only fifteen times what does that tell you. it just shows m

the issue. >> american jobs. have we forgotten that? recycled -- >> and then he buried all of that -- >> any spending, zero class cuts. >> but i think generally the american public is just skeptical right now. but anything is going to fix the jobs problem. >> i think it's impossible to have this debate without ack followinging the climate, political -- acknowledging the political climate we're living in. the political climate president obama's living in. plan after plan and his proposals get whacked down. chris: and i'm hearing from people who listen to us on television and follow us on the left progressives, lit up on his attack on the wealthy and saying they never paid their fair share. and jobs and infrastructure -- >> i just want there to be a debt solution in this country. i want long-term strategy to get debt under control. i don't think we can do that without some revenue increase. every economist will tell you that. what does he have to do? chris: we asked 12 of our regulars, including gloria, helene and others will his tax to the rich stand help him get votes in 2012 sflks here it is, eight say yes. four say no. you three here all say it's the smart mov

. >> how do you explain the american public to back a little engine when clearly what the american economy needs is a bloody great steam train? >> yeah. well, if you look at the plan that i've put forward, it's a pretty powerful locomotive. i come from a little town in western pennsylvania, butler, pennsylvania, a little steel town. when i was growing up as a kid, 21% of the people in this country were engaged in manufacturing. right now it's down to 9%. not because we haven't created products we can make in america. we're still a great engine of innovation, but that innovative product is being made in other places around the world. why? because we aren't competitive here and what made us uncompetitive in large part has been government. one big impediment is our tax structure. it doesn't match up well against other tax structures because we have income based tax and not sales based tax. what i do to solve that problem and encourage manufacturing to come back in the united states is to cut the corporate rate which is 35% for manufacturers and cut it to zero. if you manufacture in america, y

dissemination of disinformation or what feels like lies to me or clearly taking advantage of the american public. as i said last night, every time a politician says, "the american people are not stupid," they're mocking us. you know, they're banking on our ignorance and apathy. and again, i say we're like ignorance; people are like, "what do you mean? what i mean by ignorance is, you're not given the information. you're not privy to the information. i'm not calling you stupid, you know? but politicians sure bank on your stupidity. they bank on your apathy. that's how political careers are built. what you say is certainly not a salute to the chief executive. it's certainly not a salute, but i also am very diplomatic when i say, i am not building up the democrats. i'm not tearing down the republicans. now, did you do that framing before the war on terrorism? i mean, you're not at all apologetic, but you sort of say, "i'm not liberal. i'm not democrat." i'm liberal. i'm a liberal. but you said a-- it's not apologetic, but you are telling them, "oh, don't applaud that." right, because that implies t

congress is unable to get things done for the certainly the economic institutions the american public do not see this as a good strategy why on earth would they be doing this again. well i don't know that they are doing it again in fairness to the president the other democrats i think why they've done it in the i hope they don't i think why they've done it in the past is because in a variety of reasons the president has wanted to position himself as above party and above ideology as if ideology were a bad thing by the way we we have a lot of ideologies in this country we're all we all agree on including freedom and justice but but i think he wanted to position himself a certain way that maybe the way his personality is wired he wanted legislative accomplishments what he's up against the republican party that would not allow him to name the republican party official state party of the u.s. government they just don't want him to get anything done so he needs to accept that fact and accept that this is basically transfer warfare and move on and hopefully he has hopefully from now on he's

is, i think the american public is actually, as you've pointed out many times on this show, much more liberal than the beltway pundits give america credit for being. when you look at the actual issues, the american public takes the liberal position on the majority of them, whether against the war, whether equal rights for women, whether it's a strong environmental laws. last month's poll for the first time ever 54% of americans saying that they believe gay marriage should be the law of the land. so americans are actually quite liberal even though they may not call themselves that. and i think what happened today was exactly what we've been wanting president obama to do. and he has to do more of it. he's -- the problem with the base, with you mentioned moveon not knowing what to do next year. in the end, the people who are members of moveon, the michael moores out there, are going to, you know, vote for barack obama. his problem isn't me or moveon so much as it is all the people who voted for him in '08 who may vote for him again. they probably won't vote for the republican. but they'r

the plan and put americans back to work. jennifer johnson shows us how the president is hoping to woo lawmakers with the american public on hisreporter: president obama is already on the road. today in richmond, pitching his $450 billion jobs plan and asking americans to push lawmakers to get it passed. the proposal goes to congress next week. >> i want you to tell your congress person the time for gridlock and games is over. the time for action is now. the time to create jobs is now. pass this bill. >> reporter: the plan extends the payroll tax cut. gives tax credits for companies that hire unemployed workers and could create millions of jobs by upgrading roads, bridges and school buildings. steve case serves on the president's job council. >> there's a lot of focus on small business and the role entrepreneurs play, which is the best way to build sustainable jobs. >> reporter: republicans say there is room for compromise. >> i would ask the president would he accept and go along and support the effort to try and make progress on those things we can agree on and set aside the differences. >> reporter: democrats said plans by

these racist policies that we have seen in acting states across the country and so you know the american public is nor more safe than he was before these draconian immigration regulations and the prison system explosion that we've seen i'd like to add to that that another problem that we have that doesn't do anything increase the safety of the american public when we see this explosion in the lack you know in the locking up or undocumented immigrants is that it is not just a private business in the prison system that's benefiting greatly from these incredible abuse documented immigrants it's also states counties and cities and towns across america that because of budgetary pressures are now working hand in hand. with immigration authorities who raced in and incarcerate undocumented immigrants because they also benefit. from the federal government and once again that was one who's a grittier is president of almost any of those usa and that is going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered for the r.t. dot com slash usa check out our youtube page at youtube dot com slash r t americ

add to that that another problem that we have that doesn't do anything increase of safety of the american public when you we see this explosion in the lack of not in the lack enough for undocumented immigrants is that it is not just the private this isn't a sector in the prison system that's benefiting greatly from these incredible abuse of undocumented immigrants it's also states counties and cities and towns across america that because of budgetary pressures are now working hand in hand. with immigration authorities to rest and incarcerate undocumented immigrants because they also benefit from the federal government. that was one who's a good here is president of almost any of those usa in our los angeles studio well stay tuned to our team next week for a whole new line up america is quick to quarantine its enemies like iran for instance but this is one country that might have the solution to earn the u.s. say a clean bill of health and american doctors are turning east to replicate a health care system for some of our poorest communities so while diplomatic relations are looking specifically

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devastating economy dominates the headlines that wars are increasingly invisible to the american public and i think that that's a big problem i just want to quickly ask you before we run out of time you know these documents being discovered almost daily in libya showing the cia's involvement of alleged illegal rendition of suspects to think this will maintain the wall of silence we've heard so far or do you think he'll bring us more of the real. i think that petraeus will try to continue to try to give us a sense that we're getting more transparency in the cia we. sort of similar tactics says he led counterinsurgency in iraq and afghanistan a sort of mood of openness but in fact. when you actually ask petraeus hard questions he does not give very transparent answers so again i think it will be a combination. of performance of transparency but in fact i think it will be more of the same the cia has never been a transparent organization and it never will be one or a really good of a program to learn how to go an assistant professor at new york university's gallatin school thank you thank

he's going against the overwhelming opinion of the american public. he deficit. they believe the more we get into deficit and debt the less we'll be able to recover. >> i've never felt so unstyle than -- unstylish than being onset with tony and those glasses. >> sean: you got these in a drugstore. >> no. i used to. but i got these from a real eye doctor. [ laughing ] >> i think the american public is afraid of the deficit because they don't understand it. it is so out of their reach. the numbers are so out of control. >> sean: you are a democrat. here's the question. president obama, then candidate obama in 2008 called bush unpatriotic because he accumulated four trillion over eight years. this president has the distinction of doing it in 2 1/2 years. those are his words about george bush in eight years. what are we to say about his reckless spending especially on top of a promise that he wasn't going to do this and we'll have shovel-ready jobs and he would cut the deficit in half? >> when he the first trillion dollar deficit that caught all of our att

what it comes down to is he has to persuade the american public we've come so far across this lake, you have a choice. you can go back to the shore that you have seen before or we've done the hard part and we should move ahead. that's what his challenge is as much as anything else. the other thing i'd like to say is when you look at that speech on thursday night, he's on trial, but all the people in the congress are equally on trial. you have to understand, 54% of the american public would vote out every single member of congress if there were a lever on their ballot, and that tells you, they, too, have something to prove thursday night. >> that's another silver lining for barack obama. >> everybody stay put. we'll pick up on the point, the burden on the republicans in congress and the burden on republicans running for office. >>> libyan army vehicles cross the border into niger carrying gadhafi regime leaders the united states wants arrested and detained. >>> and three weeks after joining the republican presidential field, rick perry leads the gop pack, but three debates over the next

[laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause] >> you have said what families need to do. as a person in school, we know how much of our children's time is spent in school. we are often the surrogate parents for a length of time, so we have a particular responsibility in schools to get some of this truth out. i just want to throw this out for black history month. we need to ask ourselves, what information is being shared that is worthwhile, that will help young african-americans, and others, understand the nature of the society we live in? many useless activities are engaged in in black history month. i am sorry to say. it is still early. we have a chance to review. but i want to

bills that would disenfranchise large portions of the american public. take wisconsin, which is a fairly progressive state. the i.d. bill would disenfranchise 75% of the elderly, 78% of african-american males between 18 and 24. it would disenfranchise a number of latino women. it's about silencing their voice, getting them not to vote. if they suppress the vote, this el can win elections. they know if more people come out and participate in democracy, they have a tough time selling that many americans on the notions of their tired failed policies that got us into this trouble in the first place. i. >> i think that's exactly what they're doing. i think it's to bring us back to the pre-1960s, 1950 america where we didn't have an inclusive democratic voting conditions in this country. but what do we do about it? how do we stop this move that they're making in terms of voter i.d. and voter denial, and stopping same-day voter registration? what do we do, mr. trumka? >> i think what tweefb doing i. members selfthe community, people that want to help create jobs

stars" are taking what ostensibly was a family friendly show and pushing transgenderism down on the american public dan gainer of the american research center believes it's all a ratings game with negative consequences. >> abc is certainly normalizing what is clearly abnormal behavior. >> reporter: with his dancing partner at his side chaz addressed the ballroom backlash. >> it's made me realize i'm really glad i'm doing this because america really needs to see this. >> reporter: bono has become the most public face of the transgendered community even making a documentary about his transition for own. earlier i interviewed him for "nightline." . are you a straight man now. >> yes, i am. always was. just didn't know he. >> reporter: he understands it may be hard for some to accept hill. even his famously liberal mother cher struggled. >> she essentially disappeared. >> yeah, she needed the time to process it and that was how she did it. >> reporter: i talked to cher last fall about chaz after the surgery. >> i was really frightened in the beginning but she's city the same person. i mean really no di

but right now, vote for the american public. fight him later, vote now for the american public. an public is in trouble. we've got to create opportunities for jobs to grow and develop, or we're going to find ourselves faced with a new normal, a new normal where unemployment is considered normal at 8%, rather than 3.5% which is what the -- what our predecessor december sided. we're going to keep unemployment at 3 ppt 5% so we can't allow this to happen. i think we've got to fight against it. but more than that, what we've got to do is quit fighting each other. nothing is going to happen worth anything if we're fighting each other. let me conclude, congresswoman christiansen, dr. christensen, my family makes fun of me -- >> will the gentleman yield? mr. cleaver: i will. mr. butterfield: you brought up infrastructure and that's an important conversation. you served eight years as a mayor of a major city. would you speak to the importance of infrastructure and what it can mean to job creation and economic development in communities across america? i'm from a rural community, i have 8

we want to provide the best access that we can to the american public. some of the proposals we have right now, we're looking at small offices without a lot of activity. we're looking to redesign the way that we provide that service. one of the suggestions we came forward last time with was the village post office that provides better access to customers at a lower cost. >> what can congress do to help you? >> long term legislation. we need to resolve the five to six day issue, the retirement health benefits, and other things i mentioned up here. we need the administration and congress and the postal service all on the same page to get this moving. it's important for the american public and the mailing industry. >> yes, james? >> james from post and parcel. can you tell us what the impact will be on priority mail and on your standard mail service? >> there's no impact on priority mail. that's a two to three day product. could be changes with the standard mail, service standard. >> can you tell us, you said the -- that your customers are relatively positiv

. >> the american public looks at and goes, are you serious? > this is what people hate about politics. >> god help us. >> after a day of petty bickering, the white house wants to focus on jobs. >> it's time to stop the gamesmanship. >> the whole thing is silly. >> create jobs and get the economy going. >> make stupid congress look even stupider. >> speaker boehner. he could have said, all right, i'll take the high road. >> now he has pushed the president around again. >> who, if anyone, wins this political game of hard ball? >> the republican snub may be historic, but republican obstinance is not. >> of those seeking work have found it. >> it's deja vu all over again. >> imagine congress telling lbj, no, you're not going to give a speech here. >> let me warn you -- >> same thing with reagan, same with fdr. >> cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in work for the unemployed. >> but the ideas of the republican candidates are historic. >> every idea being advanced by every republican candidate -- >> career politicians -- >> has been tried b

exposure, banking exposure, wolf, to what's happening in europe. >> gloria, quickly, polls show the american public, when it comes to increasing taxes on the rich, the american public's with the president and the democrats as opposed to the republicans. >> reporter: they are. >> here's the question. will this put enormous pressure on republicans to blink? >> reporter: yeah. 2-1. there you are. i think it will. absolutely. but -- but, wolf, also there's something else that's interesting. this is a president who believes that if they don't blink, he can successfully run against the do nothing congress, because their polls also show that while the president's approval rating is down, when we asked who do you trust more to handle the economy? the president is at 46%. republicans in congress are at 37%. so people still trust the president more to handle the economy. so he feels he's on pretty firm political footing here, but you also understand, wolf, that the american public wants to get something done as well, and it could be a tax on all their houses if they end up in a stalemate, because the draconi

the other thing with the american public he needs to give them confidence.he needs to they will them we are going to do something besides another temporary stimulus that is putting this country more in debt. he didn't do either. he tkhrepbt the american public feel confident -- he didn't do anything to let me know help is on the way. >> greta: do you think there's a difference in ideology between you and the president or the president doesn't understand the mechanics of revving up the economy and getting businesses going? >> i believe this is a philosophical difference. in his core, i'm convinced now more than anything, he believes that the answer to creating jobs is more government money, bigger government and stimulus packages. he has proven it time and time again. he thinks if i try this again, this time it is going to work. it didn't work. in police businesses we need business plans. they need stability. they need to know there is not going to be epa regulations and you are not going to raise taxes on those that own these companies that are creating jobs

alexander, we've got to get back to the bigger issue which is how do we send confidence back to the american publicrkets. the only way we're going to get that done is if we actually, democrats and republicans, start being americans before they put on their partisan hats. >> it is sort of what we've been talking about for a long time now. it never quite seems to happen. let me move you to the so-called super committee which is looking to find -- has to find $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in savings that everyone can agree on by the end of the year. this seems to me to be a very tall order and it also seems to me that we are seeing more and more stories now about how this is not going to happen. can you all afford to not come up with some agreement? because then, as you know, supposedly automatically budgets will be cut -- >> here's the circumstance. every economist that i've heard of has said that if we don't get $4 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years, then we're not going to put our economy and get ourselves the debt-to-gdp ratio on a sustainable path. the challenge the super committ

the american public has never been at war as long as this. this is something that is changing the landscape probably forever, fred. >> countless examples of both resilience and recovery as pentagon correspondent, you are at the pentagon on a regular basis. so when you get to the building or perhaps there are people you talk to on a regular basis, do they speak about how they feel that day, the presence of that day every day they enter the building, even ten years after the fact? >> reporter: you know, i'll speak for myself first and say there is not a day that i can possibly forget when you walk in this building, the security measures, the somberness of what has happened here. it's something that can not be forgotten. even in our cnn office here in the press area, inside the pentagon, we have a breakaway window in this office. we have a special window in the event of a fire or disaster. the window theer retally should break away and we could escape that way. this is a building where there are heavily armed security personnel as there are in m

he could have also said that the american public is on board. a pair of new polls out today show that the american people are very much in favor of infrastructure spending right now for job's sake. when asked in a poll commissioned by politico and george washington university if they would support "a large scale federally subsidized nation-wide construction program" americans responded that they like the idea by a 30-point margin, actually. 51% in favor, 21% opposed. in the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, when asked how they feel on a road construction bill, 47% said it was a good idea, 27% said it was a bad idea. that's a 21-point margin in the policy's favor. for all that's not working and self-defeating in washington right now, could we actually get some real jobs help by investing in infrastructure? the president is on board, democrats are on board, labor is on board, business is on board, the american people are on board, republicans? i'm pretty sure they are not on board, but i have to tell you, it is sort of hard to tell. >> 20 ye