friday. i m tanya rivero. a very busy friday indeed. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. we are following a number of breaking stories this morning including the final detailof the president s new focus on jobs. see who is already saying it is too costly and just a little too little, too late. also breaking overnight, the new terror threat that is putting thousands of police officers on alert this morning, especially here in new york and in washington, d.c. we ll explain why u.s. intelligence is taking this threat so seriously. and this is a developing story. we keep getting new information. new details on this too. this is exactly what we feared heading into the tenth anniversary of 9/11 on this sunday. absolutely. so a lot to talk about. another breaking story, as many as 5 million people are now waiting for the power to return out in california, arizona, and even parts of mexico. how a utility worker s mistake actually led to a very widespread blackout on this fri
and conservative blogs, they believe the only way you get the grand overhaul of government and make it significantly smaller is by having a republican president. a republican house and republican senate. of course, given what happened the last time we had that, we had $155 billion surplus, $1.5 trillion deficit. i m skeptical, but it s what they are thinking. defeating the president and cutting out the size of government. it s not what americans are thinking, job creation. we have moved from the focus on deficit to the focus on jobs. it seems the republicans haven t caught up with that. the reality is, it is the president of the united states. if people don t get back to work, if the deficits continue to go higher and the election next year, it s the president that is going to be judged for that. if you are one of 435 people
as you mentioned, i m in the virginia state legislature, and virginia is number one for jobs because we made on a bipartisan basis jobs our number one focus. and when you have two million people who have lost their jobs during this administration and 14 million people out of work, both sides need to come together and focus on jobs, and that s the clear message d. megyn: but that s just talking points. with respect, barbara, that s just vanilla talking points. our viewers know that. what i m asking you is, is this a trap by the president for republicans tonight to try to sort of tee up his election message going forward, or is it a trap by the republicans who are trying to say, well, come meet with us beforehand and that way we can say we ve been cooperative when many on the other side would say they haven t? well, the ap reported today that the goal of the president was to kind of set up the republicans on this. and that shouldn t be anybody s goal. the goal should be jobs on both si
social security system so it is solvent so we save it for future generations. it is the fair, right thing to do. neil: senator johnson, thanks. the call for spending tonight the plan to pay for that spending ed henry at the white house. this surprised me. the details come later, right or do they? reporter: the details on-the-jobs side are coming tonight with what we are hearing from top democrats the president wants the focus to be on jobs. details on the deficit reduction to pay for that, over 400 billion dollars worth of new spending to try and create jobs, will come in the next week or so. so, i think there will be some#k people angry, no doubt that we are not getting more details tonight about the deficit. the bottom line the president wants to keep the focus on jobs. i ve talked to senior
juan: well, i think it looks like sarah palin is very interested in getting into the race, trace, and the question is, what impact would it have? according to the poll and other presidents, she still is going to be far behind rick perry and romney. she would take away substantially from michele bachmann but michele bachmann has been hurt by perry s emerge ensure, and, again, the focus on jobs is on the president, republican and democrats and the question is what ideas do you have and so far it does not look like anyone has any great ideas. trace: but it is early. thank you juan williams. muammar qaddafi s people say there is no way the dictator is giving up, with the latest from libya in a live report next. and severe drought. and strong winds. they add up to disaster for dozens of families in the path of wildfires.