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
At them come in, sean donovan housing and urban development there in the gray suit, arne duncan with education a lot of these people have served four years. This is not exactly a new team. He didnt clean house by any means. There are some new people, john kerry but its a very familiar group of people. Is there fresh vision there . Thats one of the things well be able to judge tonight. Woodruff a good point, mark. The president is replacing about half the cabinet, about half of them have announced theyre leaving. We know some of the new names but most of them havent taken their jobs yet. You know, there were some conversation that, you know, as david was just saying that some of these folks are exhausted from four years of partisan warfare. I think it is. I think its always difficult to replace somebody who is enjoying her work or his work. For any president. This is a president that, quite frankly, is comfortable with a smaller circle of people. Woodruff if i can just interrupt, the ge
Speeches at once. A shortterm rallying cry, a longterm laundry list and an unusually emotional plea for action to change gun laws. While senator marco rubios watershed moment for the party came up dry in one way, his punchy primetime pitch did rev up the base. And it stirred up more 2016 talk. Also this morning, an exclusive first interview. Exit interview of sorts. With now former indiana senator dick lugar since he left the senate on whats wrong with congress, politics and the Republican Party, and how he thinks it can be fixed. Good morning from washington. Its wednesday, february 13, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Reminder, folks, its february 13th. Husbands, boyfriends, youve got one more day to get your act together. Lets go to my first reads of the morning. The president s state of the Union Address ended up arguably as three speeches in one. It started out with a focus on the looming economic and budget crises that washingtons about to face. Moved on to a laund
Cabin, there has been no other gunfire. And what can you tell all the residents of big bear and the surrounding area at the moment as the sun is about to set. This guy still on the loose . I cant answer that for you. But its a possibility . Cindy, thank you. Thank you for talking to us. So you just heard an update from syndrome Cindy Bachman with the Sheriffs Department. Theyre not exactly sure through all the shooting that anned earlier today there you saw the most interesting question of the night. Christopher dorner on the loose or not, or did he burn in that cabin. John yang still with us from the l. A. Bureau of nbc news. John, that was quite a news conference, leaving us with nothing really except the possibility that the person being pursued here, Christopher Dorner who may be responsible for four killings right now is on the loose again. Thats right there. Is no indication. I mean clearly they say this is the cabin where he was holed up, that the fire, theyre not sure how the f