america as a jobs action for americans as he heads south for the summit of the americas. top democrats meanwhile have been quick to distance themselves politically from hilary rosen denying she has any relationship with the dnc. we have an obligation. politics and public life when someone even friends say things that are inappropriate to say so and she actually is your employee, not ours. she s works for cnn i think cnn would not allow her to be an operative for our campaign or the dnc. she s not, she never has been. david axelrod, of course, on cnn. florida congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz chairs the democratic national committee. thank you very much for joining us. you re welcome. let s put a certain matter to rest what is your take away from the whole flap over hilary rosen and what she said and what she meant? well, as a mom, and hilary rosen is a mom as well, i think
cruise liner is suspended. rescue diver face new difficulties while the captain may face years of prison. i m wolf blitzern charleston, south carolina. you re in the situation room. just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. and the
the private sector. get those jobs going in the private sector, create some demand, so that people go out and spend money, and add customs. customers. imus: how about getting neil: how about doing something that has nothing to do with washington helping, i have talked to the guys. do you know what they are telling me? stop helping. stop it. guest: that is not true. even people who identify tea partyers want to see the kind of programs that are in the american jobs action, 63 percent of americans support the components of the american jobs act. they don t think that conduct the budget is the way to go right now. neil: what they do tell me, from c.e.o. s to those that run small mom and pop concerns that sell christmas concerns to those who sell tractors, get walk off
so, have you to have action to get the economy moving forward. now, here s the deal. people are acting like going back to the clinton era tax rates on the wealthy is some horrible sin, some crime against humanity. how do we go back to the clinton era when that was one of our most successful eras? we have to be able to deal with the upkeep of the country. we got bridges falling down, roads falling down, schools falling down. we got kids coming home from wars with fwho jobs. we got good americans, 50-year-old white males who if they lose their job, may never work again. that s wrong. they should be teaching the young workers how to do a trade. well, if we were to pass the president s jobs bill and start fixing the bridges, fixing the roads, those men could get up off the coach, they could begin to feed their families and teach the next generation. that is not un-american. the middle class was built in this country. it wasn t a gift from the corporations.
friendly bet that congress will take action to improve the jobs action. it improved modestly when the labor department announced new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply to a seasonally adjusted level of 391,000. that was a 37,000 drop from the previous week and the lowest figure in nearly six months. the mayor of new york, a former job creator himself and a former republican, who now operates politically as an independent and happens to be a billionaire, warned recently that there could be riots in the streets if washington doesn t get serious about generating jobs. we have a lot of kids graduating college, can t find jobs, mayor blook befl said on his weekly radio show. that s what happened in cairo. that s what happened in madrid. you don t want those kids those kinds of riots here. mayor bloomberg added, the damage to a generation that