right now. this is not a game. this is not the time for the usual political gridlock. no time for games indeed. the president met his critics head on. those in congress who claim his plan is a form of class warfare aimed at rousing his base for 2012. by asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice. the question is this, will congress do something? if congress does something, i can t run against a do-nothing congress. the remarks of the president comma mid a growing confrontation in washington and on wall street with americans angry at the vast disparities of wealth and power in this country. the new plan from senate majority leader harry reid puts the issue in stark relief. his proposal, a 5.6% surtax on individuals of mr. reid says it would raise $445 billion.
9/11 do not. since that day, losing a mom or a dad. this weekend we re going to talk to you about all the money that would cost and indeed all the lives that were lost. but i want you to think of all the children who were left without a mom and without a dad and increasingly wonder what to make of the future. that s why as a dad, the two little boys born after that, i remember this. i hope we all do. captioned by closed captioning services, inc andrea: hello, it s 5:00 on the east coast and this is the five. i m andrea tantaros, with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, eric bolling, greg gutfeld. we have a lot to cover tonight. first, president obama urging congress to pass a $445 billion jobs bill. and saying it will jump-start the economy.
are still currently trained who are operating in afghanistan within the field. but there s also two really important numbers that have to be thought about when we re talking about afghanistan with the administration and also congress, is thinking about the first number, is the fact that we have 1,219 killed. 19 k.i.a. and that doesn t include the tens of thousands who have been injured throughout the afghanistan conflict. and there s another number that i think weighs heavily on the mind of the administration and also congress, and that s $445 billion that has been spent thus far on afghanistan. that doesn t include the over $100 billion that will be spent this year on afghanistan. so i think all these numbers are factoring into a larger narrative and really setting the table for what the president s going to decide to do in july. wes, what is the military perspective now in terms of afghanistan? is this a situation where the military is also looking for some new direction? well, i
much we can do so quickly. you have got to give us more time. there 143 million people working in america when he came in to office. there have $139 million people working today. we are down 3.8 million jobs since he came in. even his own web site recovery.gov says the stimulus bill at the cost of $445 billion has quote funded 682, 370 jobs. i checked the web site before i went on air. the american people on some level may not know the specific numbers but they get the general direction. what this guy has been trying to do has not worked and they will hold he and his party responsible at the polls in november. megyn: we are seeing a rift between some of the house democrats and the white house. they don t seem to be pleased with the support they are getting from president obama as
conservative estimate of how much growth we re likely to get out of this pro-growth tax reform that we re in the middle of accomplishing. well, you re arguing now that they re going to spur growth and then that, in the end, will make the tax cuts pay for themselves. but there s really no evidence, historically, that that happens. i ll just give you some examples, according to the cbo, the reagan tax cuts reduced revenue by $445 billion over four years, and the bush tax cuts did the same thing. they added $1.7 trillion to the national debt over ten years. well, you re referring to the wrong bill. reagan signed tax reform 31 years ago today, and this is a tax reform bill, designs to make america grow more. and there was a gush of revenue after the 86 tax reform bill. the two bills you referred to were different bills, but i would argue that would produce more revenue, as well. but clearly, the 86 tax reform act got america growing again, and it lasted for a sustained