david and doug are obviously on different sides. both of them make strong arguments what could eventually happen. you put out economic reports every day. you re constantly looking at the economy. what is your take? is there somewhere in the middle that you find, middle common ground here? first of all the idea we have a record. i would really set that aside. we re coming off a period very unique an assault on america. we had war that was undertaken to try to protect america. we had this financial crisis that occurred. to think during this period we get an objective view what the administration s policies did for growth i think is absolutely ridiculous. i don t think you can use that as an example at all. beyond that you look at health care plan, you see you re extending benefits to all of these people. you have to ask yourself how can you extend benefits to all the people and how can save money? obviously this can not save money. it has to cost us money. the thing i don t like placin
me. mouth open, ready to talk. she s ready to go. oh, good one. kyra. let s get down to business. this big action starting tomorrow in the house trying to repeal the big signature health care bill. two new polls in the last couple days indicate half the country does not want this. check this one out, one of the two polls we re talking about, look at the top there, 14% say, let the bill stay, let the law stand. another 35% say change it but make it stronger. 13% say change it but make it less potent. three out of ten, they say, just repeal the darn thing. we ll have new cnn poll numbers on health care a little later this week. such a hot button issue. you teased it just before the break. john mccain in an op-ed over the weekend, very complimentary of president barack obama s speech on the shootings. he said, while i may not agree a lot with the president on the issues i think he s a patriot.
reconvenes for the first time, rather, convenes for the first time, the president will have a new g.o.p. in the house of representatives who will take aim at his agenda which includes the health care a top domestic priority of the president. and both have competing ideas on creating jobs. and now a reporter for the wall street journal is with us owned by the parent company of this network. we will start with health care. some would like to repeal and others say that would be a mistake. reporter: there will be a vote to repeal health care before the state of the union. i didn t say fix it and i didn t say tweak it, repeal. what that means is the republicans are prepared to go nuclear against the president for this and what this is really saying is, the political contentiousness is unprecedented. that is what we are going to say. strong symbolism for what we can expect to see going forward. everybody is going to be about two things: political capital
julie: one of country s biggest social safety net celebrating anniversary. franklin d. roosevelt signed social security into law. one predicting that social security will run out of money in 2037. today president obama saying uncle sam has an obligation to make sure the program remains funded. president also claiming that republicans will push to privatize social security if the mid materials bring them a majority in congress. meanwhile, the gop using the weekly address to accuse democrats of falling short on another hot button election issue the economy. in the spirit of making health care a little easier, some doctors are taking a new
and conventional wisdom around here you don t have it done by august, by the time the congress goes home to start their summer recess right before elections it won t get done. they are trying to take what it took health care a year to do, do it in a couple of months. harry reid said they would try to get it done in july. during the health care debate they talked about the public option. in the energy debate it s cap and trade. what is cap and trade? basically requiring polluters and plants charging them for absoluting the air. republicans say that, those charges on those companies will trickle down and effectively be a tax on consumers. they say a national energy tax. you have a lot of committees involved in trying to pass this bill, the similarities abound but it will be a hard foush get it done by july. on that questioning of timing, i heard some talk that