0 well, the word you used there, evidence, is anatima to these folks. if you looked around, you would conclude the best way to take a fragile recovery and turn it into a recession is to whack away at government spending. the private sector is still climbing back. and therefore, we need a robust government sector to compliment that. and that s what the cbo it s one of the things the cbo said yesterday. what they said was absent the sequestration which by the way is 85 billion in 2013. not to mention other things congress has done. including taking the payroll tax cut out of the economy. that s over a hundred billion right there. cutting the gdp growth in half. it would be closer to 3%. instead, it s closer to 1.5%. if gdp is growing at 1.5%, the unemployment rate won t go down. it will slowly tick up. indeed it will. dana, no gdp report is all good or all bad. in this report, there are good points. for instance, deficits are decreasing. however, all i ever hear from republicans is
populist conservatism. he s a harvard educate policy wonk on things like health care reform. he s an interesting marriage. he s not that different in that respect in this mix of southern elite schooling and populist instincts to bill clinton back when he brought his project of southern populist moderation to the democratic project back in 1989, 1990, 1991. so there s a road map here and bob ji jindal i think is the first one to jump on it but he won t be the last. but the thing is though i go add had. the thing is that jindal is sticking with the cultural conservatism. he s a brown educated guy with a rhodes scholarship but he s for teaching creationism in school. a big part of the tea party thing has been resistance to opening the doors on immigration. that s something he s not dealing with at this point. right. i wonder how many immigrant families that come to the united states and want their kids to be
target of tens of thousands of e-mails from yet another general. what a soap opera. but guess what? one of the generals, actually an ex-general, is head of the cia, or just was. the other general, the one sending the e-mail by the bushel, is our commander in charge in afghanistan. if this were a british plot and it sure is kinky enough, we d be calling it carry on generals, but there are stakes. and one of them is our country s security. let s not forget as we dig deeper, that fact into this plot tonight. joining us right now is washington post reporter sauer ri horowitz, and david woods senior military correspondent for the huffington post. give me a sense, i don t want people to get lost before we start, let me take may own shot at this, how the whole thing is put together. let s watch. the messy and complex web begins with david petraeus. in 2006 petraeus meets paula broadwell, a west point graduate and doctoral student after giving a speech at harvard. fast forward to
illinois, the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, and here in washington the man charged with electing more republicans to the senate, senator john cornyn. thank you both for being here. let me start out, i want to play something that senator durbin said in mid-april to kind of kick off our conversation. senator, let he remind you of what you said, which was unless there is some intervening event, some external event, i think the reality is we are knotted going to take up tough issues involving spending, taxes, medicare, social security before an election. my question to both of you, and i ll start with you, senator cornyn, is why are you all here at this point. nobody wants to do anything big because they think the other might get the advantage, and you re going to do it all in the lame duck or try to and maybe even kick it then. why even stay in washington? senator reid is the majority leader and is the one that determines what the agenda is on the senate flor
cold. i take your sign hospitality as a sign of things to come. tony perkins and gary bauer and the politics of top secret with homeland security xharn jor joe lieberman and congressman peter king. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. the president s congressional to-do list is as broad as it is unlikely to pass. job outsourcing, mortgages, small business tax credits, clean energy, and jobs for vets. the beauty of the president s to-do list, what doesn t get done becomes campaign fodder. the question is whether congress will be anything more this year than a campaign prop. joining me now from springfield, illinois, the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, and here in washington the man charged with electing more republicans to the senate, senator john cornyn. thank you both for being here. let me start out, i want to play something that senator durbin said in mid-april to kind of kick off our conversation. senator, let he remind you of what yo