again. by the way, this is the senate. there was no progress on what was going to happen in the house, but we digress. the question is, if congress can t pass unemployment benefits, what will it be able to pass? over the last week, white house aides have previewed the state of the union for a lot of the capitol hill democrats, and that s leaking out, setting an ambitious 2014 agenda. the president wants to focus on economic opportunity, and it begins with calling on congress to raise the minimum wage. we ve got to keep create jobs that offer new opportunity and make sure those jobs offer the wages and benefits that let you rebuild some security. we ve got more kids to educate and families to get covered with health insurance, and an immigration system to fix. so this will be a year of action. the president is expected to renew his 2012 call for expanded access to preschool and call for congress to pass immigration reform. democrats are also pressing the white house to call for the
with the leadership from siemens. they re in north carolina. they had a clear message for us, that the types of things the president s doing makes it more likely they ll make states like north carolina an export hubs to create jobs. when people start looking at the actual job impact, i think we ll get more support for some of the type of agreements, particularly where we re having a higher focus on making sure it protects labor, protects jobs, protects environmental standards. but it s an uphill battle? it s san uphill battle, though, isn t it? it s always difficult, but it oflten gets done. and the key then, people understand it s part of a pro-growth jobs agenda. i think the manufacturing, innovation institute that the president is doing today, and we ll have two more announcements on in the following weeks, is the type of thing that shows we re about creating jobs here. and one of the positive things you ll hear the president talk about today, we ve had more manufacturing job gr
turnout in virginia is always bigger than rest of virginia. if he s counting on southwest virginia coming up for him, his lack of a jobs agenda was a huge, massive speak and voted against the transportation bill also. thank you, appreciate it. coming up, a stunning admission to say the least from toronto s mayor, rob ford, today just shortly coming clean about smoking crack ach months of denying that video exists of him getting high. yes, i smoked crack cocaine but no do i? am i an addict? have i tried it probably in one of my drunking stupors about a year ago. we ll play more of what the mayor of toronto had to say and repercussion. he s been voted the quote, dirtiest player in the nfl and
to get back to this about the job numbers because he has an op-ed that says we have to stop paying lip service and start taking action on the jobs, jobs, jobs agenda that everyone claims to support, republicans and democrats alike. do you think that s possible amid the continuing political instability and the fact that john boehner looks at this and directly ties it to the aca right away? absolutely. i read gene s piece. i really liked it. i think i wrote a similar piece a few days ago. i think the answer to your question is unfortunately probably not. what gene was saying was not only that we should be paying more attention to the job market but also look at where we pivoted right after this debacle of the shutdown and the debt ceiling, right back to a discussion of deficits and debt without hardly a breather to talk about the real economy. and you re absolutely right. one of the reasons, i would say the primary reason we re stuck in the kind of slog we see in these job reports mont
to win you back? compassion. there s a lot of anger, there s a lot of hate. i haven t seen any of it. on one side of their mouth they say that we need the hispanic vote. on the other hand, they look at the dream act and decide that maybe that needs to be changed. and those you know, they re contrary to each other. they re not consistent. and so i would need to see action. i think action speaks louder than words. judge carlo key. sir, thanks for your time. we western you the best of luck in your re-election. thank you very much. fear and loathing, new numbers show it looks like a lot of republicans don t like republicans. as we just saw there from the judge. plus repeal and replace, almost half of americans want current members out of congress. those are today s hot topics for our agenda today. gang, it s great to have you all here. steve, i want to start with you. we look at usa today and the