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official that he will be unveiling his job plan when congress returns in september. they return early september after labor day. a senior administration official billing this as a major speech and telling us that this is likely to be a mix of tax cuts, of infrastructure spending, and something to address those that are the long-term unemployed. the thing to consider, kyra, all of those things laid out there are items republicans are flatly opposed to or opposed to the way in which the white house and democrats so far have said they want to execute those issues. in the meantime, we are three hours away from the president coming here to this hybrid corn seed warehouse in atkinson, illinois, where he is going to be draefg a croaddressing a cro already lining up to get inside to ask him questions in this town hall meeting. this will be his first it would have today in what we are expecting to be probably a largely friendly crowd here today. kyra? well, our wolf blitzer also had
state of illinois. he s been talking to people about the fight for america s future, even as he steps up his own fight for reelection. when i travel through down state illinois, iowa, the midwest, i am absolutely confident about this country. and the reason is because of you. the reason is because of the american people. because as tough of a time as we ve had there s not a country on earth that would not ready change places with us right now. the president told me just yesterday in iowa he knows voters will hold him accountable for the constituent of economy, so he s getting ready to speak to the nation about the unemployment problem and what h he can try to do to make it better. jessica, what are you learning about the president s proposed speech? it will come after labor day when the president will unveil not specifically proposal, but legislative packages that his team says will include new initiatives. now, this is separate from the proposal we have heard he ll mak
stop. promising a major new jobs initiative next month. in fact he and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been talking about jobs for a long time now. american peems s top priority is the creation of jobs. create jobs. create jobs. job creation. focus on jobs. new jobs. jobs. jobs. jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs. jobs. talking about jobs. are talking about jobs. and now it s time to talk about jobs. well, they re all talking about jobs. the president included. the question is, what are they actually doing about it? this afternoon cnn s wolf blitzer spoke with mr. obama. he asked him why wait until september? he pointed to initiatives already pending before congress. then he asked if the president may be planning something much bigger. there s been reports you want to create a new department of jobs, something along those lines. is that true? you know, that is not true. but what is true is that i think we missed an opportunity a month ago when we
time now. american peems s top priority is the creation of jobs. create jobs. create jobs. job creation. focus on jobs. new jobs. jobs. jobs. jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs. jobs. talking about jobs. are talking about jobs. and now it s time to talk about jobs. well, they re all talking about jobs. the president included. the question is, what are they actually doing about it? this afternoon cnn s wolf blitzer spoke with mr. obama. he asked him why wait until september? he pointed to initiatives already pending before congress. then he asked if the president may be planning something much bigger. there s been reports you want to create a new department of jobs, something along those lines. is that true? you know, that is not true. but what is true is that i think we missed an opportunity a month ago when we could have dealt with our debt and deficit in a serious, balanced way that would have avoided these huge gyrations in the financial markets, given