the senior west coast editor from vanity fair magazine. welcome to all of you. president obama you said he s a bit of a whack, 17% drop in approval of those aged under 30. what the hell is going on? you know, that s bad news for him. to give him his due he s probably the most popular politician among young people here and around the world. this is very, very bad news and not just about the nsa stuff. these young people elected this president, they reelected him and came out in big numbers. where is the agenda for young people in washington d.c.? they have a student debt crisis like you wouldn t belief. where is the bill for student debt. 25% of young people unemployed. where is the job bill? where is the client bill? there where is there anything to help them and the backdrop and their hero, their president may be spying on them, i think you see a dramatic drop. not just about the nsa, i think you have a whole generation of young people who are saying look, we did what you told us to
abby, host of half post life and the senior west coast editor from vanity fair magazine. welcome to all of you. president obama you said he s a bit of a whack, 17% drop in approval of those aged under 30. what the hell is going on? you know, that s bad news for him. to give him his due he s probably the most popular politician among young people here and around the world. this is very, very bad news and not just about the nsa stuff. these young people elected this president, they reelected him and came out in big numbers. where is the agenda for young people in washington d.c.? they have a student debt crisis like you wouldn t belief. where is the bill for student debt. 25% of young people unemployed. where is the job bill? where is the client bill? there where is there anything to help them and the backdrop and their hero, their president may be spying on them, i think you see a dramatic drop.
january 20th, with a million people watching, 750,000 lost. another four million before the first job bill we could get passed. he is trying to make the case that women have been inordinarily hit during this recession, is that true explosive. well, women and men have been hit. look at the number of people that were kicked out of the middle class, dropped out because they can t stay there anymore. these guys talking about women, these guys talking about women. these guys have a social policy on contraception that takes you back to the 50s. when asked the question do you think the legislation passed mandating that your son and daughter doing the same work will have to get the exact same pay, the lilly ledbetter law? they couldn t answer. so the war on women is real? oh, i think the war on women
complain about, it s certainly not their portfolios. even jack welch, his stock is at 23. when we started this whole thing, it was 9 bucks. his shareholders aren t complaining about what the president s done. he has a tremendous amount of things he can call upon and talk about that he s done right. he refuses to talk about any of them. i wonder why. yes. i think the president really needed to push back on this idea, that there isn t a role for the government to play in the economy. even the idea that government can t create jobs. we have lost 656,000 public sector jobs since the recession began. the government could have saved those jobs. not only that, obama has a plan right now that moody s said would create 2 million more jobs. it would lower the unemployment rate by 1% if we saved those public sector jobs and passed another job bill, the unemployment rate would be 6% right now. right. it s not a fantasy. we know what would work and it s being blocked because number one the
undecided in the senate race between brown and warren. with more than 5,000 people inside the arena, thousands more gathered outside. for some supporters on both sides got into their own heated discussions. i want somebody to be honest. he did 40 times against the job bill. the radical right wing of your party. that s what he s going to do. vote against the right-to-work state and everything else. if he votes against the jobs bill, every single time, how is that for jobs? joining me now is boston globe s editor, cynthia needham. we couldn t hear a lot of what those two gentlemen were saying, but you can see from the finger-pointing and body language they had the signs for the candidate they supported. these people were so interested they showed up yesterday. it was a huge number of