with ford wales and now the companies returned to profitability and it appears that the government will return get back about 80 to 90% of the $86 billion it spent on gm and chrysler. here at the in detroit, chrysler added a thousand workers to produce the new chrysler grand cherokee. which is one of its most popular cars, and, it is tough to find in a state where the unemployment rate is more than 13%, the plant is running two shifts and could go up to three and the president will speak here and later in hamtramck, michigan, at a gm plant right outside detroit producing the new electric powered chevy volt. gm had planned to shut down a number of plants, couple dozen of them, this summer, and instead, all are staying open, arthel. arthel: and the president is happy to say, here s the jobs i have been talking about i would produce, but, republicans don t think it is time to declare victory yet, right?
care, then vote no. bill: critical vote on 9/11 bringing out fireworks on the hill. that was only half of it. both men are here live, weighing in for the democrats, peter king, both from the state of new york, they re live to defend their positions. arthel: it is heated. bill: breaking news on the economy, now, disappointing turn, the u.s. economy slowing growth in the second quarter, the weakest in about a year, gdp, gross domestic product, grew by 2.4%, not great, not terrible, but no one wants this to continue and stuart varney, fox business network, looking at the numbers now, i guess what it shows, is that the economy is in neutral. at best. yeah, that s a nice spin you re putting on it there, bill. i would say the economy weakening, clearing slowly. you re referring now to the second quarter of the year, that s the period between april and june, you ve got anemic 2.4% growth on an annual basis, that s over that three-month period. that means the economy is slowing dow