and faith versus obama care, back at the supreme court. an explainer with court watcher joan business coupic. , ready set, go, our panel ponderses the deciding issues in poll thinks year. 302 days until the midterms. this is state of the union . good morning from washington, i ll candy crowley. democrats on capitol hill have lost a full-court press for an extension of long-term unemployment benefits which expired last month. the senate takes up the measure tomorrow. the bill provides relief to the jobless for up to 73 weeks. it s not certain to pass but democrats are certain the politics of the issue favor their party this election year. joining me is the man leading the push to restore the emergency aid, a key economic adviser to the president, gene sperling. gene, thanks for being here. thanks for having us. let me let s start out with unemployment benefits. some republicans say, hey, we re
when he had better numbers, more public behind him, and more sway in a democratic party that has to look toward a 2014 election? how can he get it done this year when he is in a weaker position what he couldn t get done last year, the year before? well, i think there s no question, washington s been, you know, extremely dysfunctional. but i think you have to hope that there is desire everywhere to she people that we can work together and i think that it will be harmful, not just for the economy, but i think harmful plightcy dpli republicans use 2014 as a year to threaten, default again on the debt limit or refuse to do bipartisan immigration reform that s already passed the senate. and you know, the question is the only reason people want to work together on jobs politics or are we here to try to create jobs, strengthen the middle class, deal with inequality, have each other s back in hard times? that s our goal, what the president s going to be pushing for in the state of the union,
bret: finally tonight, every monday morning i do live talk backs with anchors of fox affiliates around the country about washington the week ahead. i like it. movie stars are often sent out on those morning shows to pitch movies. but some apparently may be getting a little too comfortable. while promoting the new film now you see me with michael cain look how morgan freidman approached the show with local anchors. did the magician show you any tricks. [ laughter ] the thing with this movie we show you tricks. these are the biggest magic tricks they they have gigantic. they then in the movie show you how it s done without cg glimplet michael, you have a bit of a history in the recent past in magic-based movies. yeah. did i a couple. i played a magician in one movie. i mean, i was i had to learn [ laughter ]
and we actually talked about this whole issue. it s an exercise in futility. it means nothing. it is going nowhere and it s a talking point. that s one of the things i don t like about washington. things are done as a talking point. trying to eliminate the affordable care act at this point is just not the smart thing to do and it s not going to be done. the president would veto it even if it got through the senate but it will never be brought up and they know it. millions of people probably actually think, wow, we have a chance to still kill obama care and everybody up here already knows, including those involved in developing the budget, that that s not going to happen. congressman emanuel cleaver and richard wolffe, thank you for your time. thank you, reverend. grab the popcorn, the gop circus has rolled into town big this time. they forgot the small tent. plus, the republican power
i m teaching this class at newt university about washington. i think washington is in some ways the least studied of our great presidents, parr stially because he wasn t much of a writer and his wife martha described his personal correspondence. the world was formed around him from 1775 until 1796. it s easy to forget how much he really was the father of the country and how much we today owe our institutions and our attitudes to washington s nobility and washington s belief in the ability of people to govern themselves. we always overlook washington. it s another guy who was hard to penetrate. incredible. absolutely. there s an enigmatic quality to them. you think about lincoln, we ve seen with the film. there was a book a few years about written about lincoln as a