mobility. what can he do today that would bring government to the right place, that would enlist business and individuals, themselves? well, that s obviously an important part of the things that we want to do to fight poverty. you know, the first stop on that is to raise the min puimum wagef you re working full time, full year, you can lift your family out of poverty. that s why the president endorsed raising the min puimum wage. he s also endorsed pushing people to get more education, get nr skills and asking businesses to do more to make sure there are wrungs on the ladder for employees to climb, get the skills at work, learning more, getting the promotions, building their skill set and moving up. because opportunity is at the heart of what we re trying to promote. betsey stevenson of the white house council on economic advise advisers. thank you for your time. pie pleasure. ahead on the 50 year war, we ll talk an the americans
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first it s today s new round of attack in the presidential race campaign and the much winning battleground state of ohio this afternoon. president obama slammed the tax proposals, warninging they ll send thousands of u.s. jobs overs overs overseas. > the romney campaign is accusing them of another dishonest attack. why did the president level this new corporate tax attack on romney in ohio? reporter: well, wolf, the president is trying to draw sharp contrast between his campaign and romney s campaign, trying to suggest romney is looking out for the people at the the very top. specifically in ohio the people are making the argument that romney supports are eliminating tax. this will lead to job creations overseas. and that will come at the expense of jobs in ohio. we have not found any serious economic studies that the economic plan would actually create jobs until today. i ve got to be honest. today we found out there
administration. debt still goes up. we cut it by $3.3 trillion over ten years compared to where the president is going. does it increase? here is why it increases. 10,000 people are retiring every day. baby boomers are moving from working to retiring. their health care costs are going up at three to four times the rate of inflation. we have to absorb the fact we are going from 40 million retirees to 80 million. if we don t reform the programs and the rest of government, the debt goes off the rails. we will have increasing debt. we have to absorb it in a way we can manage it. that s what we are proposing to do. congressman paul ryan. thank you very much. always good to see you. thank you so much. up next, one of the president s top economic advi r advise advisers, james sperling joins us when morning joe comes back. [ male announcer ] this is the network
ideologue and david cassidy from the partridge family. i woke up and love this morning. david cassidy? did you have a poster in your room as a kid? she didn t even know i didn t. her father actually her father didn t let her listen to radio, said it was not allowed. said it was a communist conspiracy. i watched happy days. so last night, it was a fascinating debate. newt, some would say, didn t show up. the old newt most of us have grown up with. it s interesting, one of the after south carolina, i talked to one of obama s advi r advise advisers, and we were talking about this momentum and the double-digit win and all that. and watch what happens when newt gets on top. he doesn t handle it well, doesn t perform well. he went into cruising speed on the monday night debate and said i m not going to waste time answering those attacks and he simply is not on his came when
letter to iran s supreme leader calling for direct talks with iran and warning tehran against closing a strategic waterway. the obama administration says communications of the united states views are being delivered through other diplomatic messages. again the obama administration denying this report out of iran. and president obama may be at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to his super pac. listen to this. politico is reporting the president s super pac priorities raised just $5 million in the first half of last year, that is less than half of the $12 million raised by romney s super pac restore our future. deputy political director park murray joins us live. this article points out the president has mot wanted to smooze with some of these super rich people who can swoop and give millen coz the super pacs. but his advise advisers are looking at the effectiveness when romney needed help bringing