to move towards let s get some consensus. it looks like with today s announcement that chris christie is endorsing mitt romney, that the consensus is building around romney who does have a 59-point economic plan and does talk about jobs relentlessly wherever he goes. in fairness he talks about jobs. he doesn t produce one in the 59-point plan but he talks about it. you can t create jobs without a great economy. yeah. we ll get back to that. alex, herman cane, there s been a lot of talk. people have been directing a lot of traffic on herman cane my way because he keeps bringing up race, he brings it up. right. and i m glad to see him in the race. i m proud of him as a fellow african-american, but his extreme views are what bothers me. let me show you something herman cane says. it s not anything but his views that i question. there s this ray tempt to
where any of that is there. i m showing you your own people, showing you what s in the bill. congressman, in the name of the american people, can t you get through this gridlock of playing partisan politics? i know you want to defeat the president, but do you have to throw away millions of american families in the process? reverend, you know me, we ve done this before. i ve tried in the last eight months since i ve been here to find places to agree with the president. in fact, i was reading the president s job bill going down the list of things he presented on your network and said take it or leave it, you don t get to choose the things you like and don t like. it s all or nothing. that s not how it works. the president is the one who said this bill is take it or leave it. the democrats in the senate don t even accept that. we can do what we want. the president is off running let me ask you this one question. sure. just me and you. is there anything you could support, anythin
mcconnell. there s no reason we need to exacerbate one crisis in an effort to tackle another one. can t we turn this guy down? ah, that s better. ohio senator sherrod brown and white house aide gene sperling on the fight for jobs. mitt romney is the man we need to lead america. christie endorses romney ahead of tonight s great gop economic debate. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself. but can anything help this heartless crew? and hats off to wendy williams. this is your entertaining bonnet. politics nation starts right now. welcome to politics nation. i m al sharpton. tonight s lead. the american people are bringing the fight to the republicans
cutting taxes by freezing these regulations. abolish all of these regulations. we eliminate the corporate tax. release you from overtaxation and overregulation and sign an executive order to wipe out as much of obamacare as i can. repeal obamacare. repeal obamacare. great, guys, but is there a real jobs plan among you? not from rick perry. he jumped into the race two months ago. still doesn t have a jobs plan. mitt romney, willard says he has a big 59-point plan for the economy, but it s really just gop boiler plate, nothing that actually creates jobs and herman cane s 999 plan. it s just a gimmick for selling real class warfare in this country. former reagan economic advisor bruce bartlett says cain s plan is, quote, a huge tax cut for the wealthy. bartlett says the plan would
make the poor pay more while massively increasing the budget deficit that exists. way to go, mr. craain. joining me now is analyst richard wolffe and jared bernstein, former chief economist for vice president biden, now a senior fellow with the center for budget policy and priorities. richard, won t we see a failure to address the jobs crisis on the stage tonight? i mean, i told my friends it s like i used to tell friends at a mike tyson fight. if you re looking for a substantive job plan tonight, don t get a soft drink because you might miss it. right. well, you know, to quote rick perry, the question is whether these people have a heart about the unemployed. that s one side of it. you know, it s often in spite of the politics, in spite of the house republicans saying they wanted to campaign on jobs, jobs, and jobs, every time someone talks about jobs you get