views without getting so emotional that we start attacking people personal or getting into their wheelhouse . does that make sense to you? is it >> jack torry, columbus dispatch, washington bureau chief, let's go to you. >> there is a deal on the table >> there is a deal on the table that affects the bargaining rights of employees. trillions trillions of dollars have been put on the table with this. do you do you see this as a referendum on your administration? what happens if you lose this? does this ruin your agenda for the next three years? >> first of all, it doesn't ruin my agenda. i reject this notion that we are somehow disrupting people's bargaining rights. you in ohio will be able to continue to negotiate for your wages and for your working conditions. nobody in the private sector that i'm aware of negotiates for their pensions or for their health care. what we're asking public employees to do in ohio is share some of the sacrifices national taxpayers, the private workers have shared. let me tell you what we're asking public employees to do. we're asking them to pay 15% of the cost

>> i finally found will's wheelhouse.bout the sexist comment about women choosing wedding dates. we have sarah palin, michele bachmann, ron paul, we don't need any reality tv stars to match folks. my choice andy cohen, if nothing else he'll find out a way to make a profit out of running for office. >> interesting, pete, robert good to see you, will, we will talk later. good to see you guys. thanks so much. 36 minutes past the hour. >> good to be with you. >>> let me bring in christine romans, get a woman back on the show. was that a sexist comment to compare what was happening in washington over the date two women arguing over their wedding date? >> i'm still thinking of will and the reality tv he must be watching. geez, whoa. >> maybe a little misguided but let's get back to the question at hand and what we're talking about, a sign maybe that the job market is improving. is this a real sign or at this point we'll take any good news we can get? >> the jobs market is like a reality train wreck. 9.1% unemployment, you look

that's his wheelhouse. but i think he wanted to try a new line of attack.ot sure it will get a lot of attraction right now. but if he's the nominee he will have to talk about foreign affairs. i think he's right about mentioning russia. not a subject that will unite america. but you look at the overall legacy, i think it's a poor one. and the issue he raise bed iran, i would have raised another area with iran, and that's in 2009 there was the uprising. that was a historic opportunity. it was on the verge, it could have swept away the regime and completely changed the strategic situation in the region and obama was a wall, said not a word. and others said are you with us, obama, or not? that should never happen to an american president. >> what did you think about the governor's rationale that the states have a right to mandate people buy health insurance, but the federal government does not? >> look, bill, he has a tough brief here. >> is that legitimate? >> it's legitimate technically. but the opposition that conservatives have is the principle. it's not te

that's in my wheelhouse and i'll get america working again. [cheers and applause] >> now, ann mentioned that i haven't spent my whole life in politics. as a matter of fact, of the people running for office, i don't know that there are many who have less years in politics than me. i spent four years as a governor. i joke that i didn't inhale. i'm still a citizen. i'm still a businessperson. a conservative businessperson. i started off my career in business, got my first job and began to work in an enterprise and ultimately became more successful there an started my own business. i had the experience of helping start small businesses and in some cases helping larger businesses that were in trouble. i learned from that experience, sometis successfully, sometimes i wasn't successful. but through that process, i learned how the economy worked. and how you create jobs and how we lose jobs as a nation. and then i became fortunate enough to be asked to go out and run the olympic winter games in salt lake city. they were in trouble and wanted somebody

that's in my wheelhouse.get america working again. >> south carolina's jim demint isa -- is a powerhouse was on "state of the union" making his feelings known about the upcoming jobs speech to congress on thursday. >> i don't think those things will create jobs, candy. what the president appears to be doing, and i'm so tired of his speeches, it will be hard to watch. >> a lot of people feel the same way. whether senator demint is watching or not, president obama will address both houses of congress and the american people thursday evening offering his proposals to get america back to work. want to bring in cnn political anchor for new york one, errol lewis. great to see you. we know the president has his job cut out for him thursday night when he's talking about jobs, he will talk specifically about job training and infrastructure spending. no big surprises there. will he add any republican proposals to his speech? what do you think? >> oh, you can almost count on that. the fact that mitt romney will unveil h

that's in my wheelhouse and i'll get america working again.n mentioned i haven't spent my whole life in politics. as a matter of fact, of the people running for office, i don't know that there's less years in politics than me. i spent four years as governor. i joke that i didn't inhale. i'm still a citizen. i'm still a business person. a conservative business person. i started off my career in business. got my first job and began to work in an enterprise and ultimately become successful and started my own business. i had the experience of helping start small businesses and in some cases helping larger businesses that were in trouble. i learned from that experience. sometimes successfully, sometimes i wasn't successful, but through that process i learned how the economy worked and how we create jobs and how we lose jobs as a nation and then became fortunate enough to go out and run the olympic games in salt lake city. they were in trouble and wanted somebody who knew about turnarounds to come out and run the games, and i did, and it was a fabul

these tea party events are not typically in mitt romney's wheelhouse. his appeal to tea party activists the last couple of weeks after rick perry has leapfrogged him in the polls. romney actually did pretty well. hit a lot of tea party notes. kind of veered a little bit on a moderate course at times, you know. tea party activists are very critical of the regulatory climate, and mitt romney urged caution a bit and said, you know, we do need some regulations in the federal marketplace, but, you know, all of us down here were really waiting for romney to address the topic of the health care law he passed in massachusetts when he was governor, and i've got to tell you, it was an amazing spectacle to see senator jim demint, a romney supportner 2008, come down here and grill romney on the health care law. i mean, that's pretty incredible, and the fact that romney came down here to kiss the ring of a guy who backed him four years ago is really telling about the influence that jim demint has in the republican party right now hand how much things have changed fo

it's not really in his wheelhouse.edible through primaries and general elections over a decade he has avoided most debates. but do not underestimate rick perry. his opponent in the 1998, lieutenant governor's race, john sharp, said running against perry is, quote, like running against god. this guy, you know, whether by luck or by tactical brilliance and he has a smart team of advisers has imagined to avoid debates but leaving a trail across texas going back to 1984. >> the reputation you talk about there, do you think that style that combative debate style we have seen will work for a national audience or is it a better fit for texas politics? >> i think that clip you played is a great example of what we might see from rick perry tonight. as you said, head-strong. he refuses to back down. i talked to several strategists who worked on campaigns against him past. they say he likes to sticks to his talking points and defensive about the points he tries to make. what the other candidates have to try to do is get him off t

the economy and jobs is right in his wheelhouse. and when you see him losing to rick perry on the economy, you know that that's a problem for mitt romney. >> all right. peter hamby, we will have all eyes on that debate tonight. and thanks for watching the numbers for us. we appreciate it. >>> coming up, tea party members will be asking some of the questions tonight in tonight's gop presidential debate. after the break, we'll ask our contributors what they want to hear. and serena williams losing her cool and then her match. we have u.s. open women's finals highlights, straight ahead. ng as about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives use clean american natural gas today. it costs about 40 percent less than gasoline, so why aren't we using it even more? start a conversation about using more natural gas vehicles in your community. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough pow

that is not an mike wheelhouse of interest -- that is not in my interest.elhouse of that requires a muche serious discussion. you can't make it revenue neutral and make a much more efficient and fair. host: michael in atlanta, republican call. caller: this request may seem ludicrous, but which to be willing to discuss the outcome if the u.s. placed a boycott on all countries for assembled products? any country could ship parts and the u.s. could ship parts to be assembled in each country. thank you. guest: the idea out would be that we would let a foreign automaker ship all the parts here but then we would have to assemble them. that would introduce an enormous inefficiency and would cost us a lot of jobs. i can remember the guy at heritage committee proposal -- outlaw taxicabs and make everybody go round in rickshaws. there would be slower, but there would be a lot of rickshaw drivers. require everybody to go around in a rickshaw. i think this assembly idea weeks of that -- reeks of that. we're all better off that we can import chinese clothing because the alternative is that we can cre

not typically his wheelhouse, these tea party events. he stepped up his effort ts reach out to them in recent weeks and i talked to a lot of activists last night down here in south carolina who were impressed with his performance. he was asked about the controversial health care law, controversial among conservatives that he implemented in massachusetts. a lot of tea party folks that i talked to were impresseded with his answer there, that he delivered a state based solution, but obama care, as he called it, is a federal overreach. it was a largely friendly forum. there wasn't a debate for mat. more like they would come up, jim demint would press them how they thought on the issue and mostly trained their fire on president obama. listen to this -- >> foreign policy. >> a lot. first, i would have one. >> i happen to believe that this administration is weakening america militarily. this is not what americans want. the world is not safer. >> the constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government, the rol

that is not an mike wheelhouse of interest -- that is not in my interest.elhouse of that requires a much more serious discussion. you can't make it revenue neutral and make a much more efficient and fair. host: michael in atlanta, republican call. caller: this request may seem ludicrous, but which to be willing to discuss the outcome if the u.s. placed a boycott on all countries for assembled products? any country could ship parts and the u.s. could ship parts to be assembled in each country. thank you. guest: the idea out would be that we would let a foreign automaker ship all the parts here but then we would have to assemble them. that would introduce an enormous inefficiency and would cost us a lot of jobs. i can remember the guy at heritage committee proposal -- outlaw taxicabs and make everybody go round in rickshaws. there would be slower, but there would be a lot of rickshaw drivers. require everybody to go around in a rickshaw. i think this assembly idea weeks of that -- reeks of that. we're all better off that we can import chinese clothing because the alternative is that we can

that is not an mike wheelhouse of interest -- that is not in my interest.elhouse of that requires a much more serious discussion. you can't make it revenue neutral and make a much more efficient and fair. host: michael in atlanta, republican call. caller: this request may seem ludicrous, but which to be willing to discuss the outcome if the u.s. placed a boycott on all countries for assembled products? any country could ship parts and the u.s. could ship parts to be assembled in each country. thank you. guest: the idea out would be that we would let a foreign automaker ship all the parts here but then we would have to assemble them. that would introduce an enormous inefficiency and would cost us a lot of jobs. i can remember the guy at heritage committee proposal -- outlaw taxicabs and make everybody go round in rickshaws. there would be slower, but there would be a lot of rickshaw drivers. require everybody to go around in a rickshaw. i think this assembly idea weeks of that -- reeks of that. we're all better off that we can import chinese clothing because the alternative is that we can