Committee is saying, dont you know theres an election and i say i have cleared these names in the white house and anyway, all my guys did just terrific. They were confident, they were competent, even some of the people who had objected called and said we love you guys and jim was the secretary and he later became our ambassador of japan and he went over, he was president of northwestern university. Sophia had ruled all of these people out because they were registered democrats, i would not have had the confidence. Im not saying that i shouldnt have asked the question. But anyway. If you have competent people, they are going to do much better than if you dont. The first job is to form your team and give people who are competent. If something happens that is surprisingly good to my would like ted know about that, too. We can learn from those things. You have got to give people leaders and objectives and hold accountable. Accountability is very important. Economics or governmental systems
You can also reach out to us via social media. The address is on the screen. For twitter, the address is cspanwj. Pan. Book. Com cspas or you can email journal c span. Org. We begin by talking about the speech that the president made four years ago in elkhart, indiana. It is part of the nbc news elkhart project. We will talk more about that. We want to talk to you about your view of the economic recovery. Our first call comes from randy and New Hampshire on our line for independence. Caller how are you guys this morning . Things are going downhill fast. We are in this huge crisis. The recession is going on and on. We are lucky that we are not in worse shape in a severe depression. The banks keep doing business. Things need to change fast. Host what kind of work do you do . Caller i am a diesel mechanic by trade but i now go to school. I go to school so that i can they treat the workers wrong. Everyone is wondering what is going on. People need to get organized and stand up. People crit
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] quacks on newsmakers this week , Chris Van Hollen talks about the decisions facing congress as it moves closer to the acrosstheboard spending cuts in march. I would much prefer to see us do this before the march 1 trigger date, but if we go over, i hope republican colleagues come to their senses. What is the game plan, if we do go over the deadline. What is the game plan to think about for it if it becomes an economic drag . It is already becoming an economic drag. If you look at the last quarter of last year, you saw a downturn in Economic Committee and a factor behind that activity, and a factor behind that has been anticipation of the acrosstheboard cuts. If you get a slowdown in anticipation, it will get worse once the march 1 date hits. My view is you have to deal with this now and you are raising a broader question. All of these things upon us, the march 1 sequester, t
The rest of the fiscal year. Tax increases, republicans have said they will not go for any tax increases. Everyone thinks the sequester is a bad idea. What is the plan to forge a compromise . We want to ask the republicans to take a balanced approach and i think there is growing pressure among other republicans to replace the sequester through a combination of cuts that take place over a longer time because they do not want to harm the economy in the short term even as you try to reduce the deficit in the long term. Also by closing some of the tax loopholes. We heard in the last president ial campaign from mitt romney and paul rand that there are all these tax breaks and loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. Speaker john boehner said he could come up with 800 billion through a tax reform plan. Were simply saying to the House Republicans that we want to do with Speaker John Boehner said he could do. Use some of their revenue from closing loopholes to close the d
Lori, yuore up first. House democrats have prepared their own bill for dealing with the rest of the fiscal year. Tax increases, republicans have said they will not go for any tax increases. Everyone thinks the sequester is a bad idea. What is the plan to forge a compromise . We want to ask the republicans to take a balanced approach and i think there is growing pressure among other republicans to replace the sequester through a combination of cuts that take place over a longer time because they do not want to harm the economy in the short term even as you try to reduce the deficit in the long term. Also by closing some of the tax loopholes. We heard in the last president ial campaign from mitt romney and paul rand that there are all these tax breaks and loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. Speaker john boehner said he could come up with 800 billion through a tax reform plan. Were simply saying to the House Republicans that we want to do with Speaker John Boehn