Businesses are now paying close to 50 if youre in a state like california, new york, youre paying more than 50 in tax. The top 5 pay over 50 of the income tax revenue in this country. This has to stop. The president has to stop this. And i dont think, i think he understands government. I dont think he understands that a vigorous government requires a vigorous private sector. The only way you will get a vigorous private sector if the government backs off and lets the Dynamic Energy of the private sector go forward. Neil he will be talking about not only bigger government but smarter government. Government can do a lot of good. Do you think government can . Look, we dont need smarter government. We dont need more efficient government. We needless government. People in middle class and people in the lower classes they dont need more government, they need jobs. We need to create jobs. We need the economy to grow so that we can fund these Government Programs. Look, government could be run b
Rights activist ted nugent. And in the chamber, our chief white house correspondent, jon karl. You are right above the speakers shoulder, jon . Right off to the left, 20 feet from Gabby Giffords and mark kelly. As we watch the president s cabinet come into this chamber, george, you will see a confident president come in. He is convinced that the American People are with him on the big issues. And he is also convinced that he has a mandate coming out of that election. So, he will be at times confrontational in this speech. Compromising, willing to compromise, but only so much with the republicans. The key issue, as you mentioned, is the economy. They gave us some excerpts of the speech early. One that hit me was that he said that the economy, an economy that creates job, good, middle class jobs must be the north star for our efforts, for everything we do. And that will be the message here. This is a divided chamber. John boehner, right over his shoulder, just this morning, told reporter
Man described as resembling dorner stole a pickup truck. Authorities spotted it anteman they believed it dorner ran into the cabin and exchanged gunfire. One deputy was killed and another injured. The wounded deputy is expected to survive. A Sheriffs Department spokeswoman wouldnt say what the next move would be. Reporting live in the newsroom, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. The mayor of los angeles held a News Conference and sent his condolences to the family of the deputy killed. Well stay on top of the situation there. Right now what well do is send you off to washington, d. C. For the president s state of the Union Address. As we see the first lady now entering the chamber, keep in mind if there are any changes in that developing situation in big bear youre going to see a crawl on the lower part of your tv screen to let you know. Well be updating the situation live on tv 36. We go now to foxs coverage of president obamas state of the Union Address. You are looking live at the chamb
You. We welcome you, as we gather with you to watch president obamas state of the Union Address. As he challenges congress and tries to harness Public Opinion behind his plan of action for the first year of his second term. The focus will be on the economy, diane. Creating jobs. Thats been the struggle of his presidency. The president believes he has the public on his side on that issue. Most of the speech will be about that. But he has a new mission for his second term. Ending gun violence and so much emotion around that issue tonight. Emotion in that room and also this convergence with the drama we have seen unfolding today out in california. Just to bring you up to date right now, the gun battle that was under way in big bear lake, california, you can still see the flames at that cabin where Police Officers believe they had trapped Christopher Dorner, the excop who had been on a murderous rampage for the last nine days, vowing to bring war to los angeles. And tonight, his fourth cas
Of recession, and its the long, suffering middle class that will be the target of much of his message tonight. We should tell you at the same time, we are following a very tense news event, across the continent on the west coast in the san berardino mountains, gunfire and then a fire over an hour weve been watching this in a cabin in the woods believed to contain the sniper, excop, the military veteran that has terrorized Southern California for days. Another loss of life tonight. A Police Deputy there confirmed dead and if this situation is resolved, were keeping a close eye on it, we will let you know, following the conclusion of the president s remarks. Back inside the House Chamber we go, weve been watching arrivals tonight. First lady has taken her seat. Members of the supreme court. And now members of the cabinet. Outgoing, incoming and those who are saying on. Youre going to see a lot of ribbons and a lot of lapels tonight. The green ribbons are for the victims of the shooting v