get to work. and let s show the world once again why the united states of america remains the greatest nation on earth. alisyn: will his plan trigger economic growth or more politics as usual? joining us for a fair and balanced debate now is former hillary clinton advisor and fox news contributor jehmu greene and political editor of town hall.com benson. good morning, guys. good morning. alisyn: sky, let me start with you, there are things republicans and democrats will like. he laid out payroll tax cuts. infrastructure spending, school written know investigations, lower corporate tax rates, these are things that republicans have called for as well. did you like the speech? i didn t much care for the speech, which is not to say that i hated every single provision that he laid out in the speech. but i think that your intro was absolutely on the money, alisyn. it really did feel like a campaign speech. i don t think it was a jobs speech as much as it was a jobs speech about savin
you how i m going to pay fortunate 10 days what is the political strategy? how do you explain that, chris? the way i explain it is, he thought there was too much on the plate. that if he really wanted to focus on jobs, the polls show that voters really are more concerned about jobs than on deficit reduction. he thought, let s make this a jobs speech. and i ll tell you later how i m going to pay for it. one of his points he was making to appeal to republicans was, this is all going to be paid for. this isn t going to add to the deficit. as you heard him in richmond saying we are going to have that balanced approach. that means tax increases on the wealthy, closing tax loopholes like on corporate jets and big oil. we are back to the debt debate where we were in august when the president and the republicans in congress couldn t agree. i don t know why it should be any different in september. shepard: i m sensing a strategy on the two sides, john boehner, seconds ago as you were speaki
and substance, of course, louisiana congressman bill cassidy, pollster chris, author of 27 houpowers of persuasion d democratic strategist christopher hahn. let me start with you, what you heard the president say about jobs, what grade do you give him? he gets an incomplete. he started out really channelling the american people s angst and he gave up some things, you know, infrastructure, we all wanted. he said it s paid for. but did you hear any details? and we heard his speech that sounded remarkably like other speeches but that did not accomplish the goals that he says this one will do so. he says he will release the details on september 19th that he didn t want to do that in front of this 33 minute or whatever it was, speech last night. what did you think, chris, about the substance of what he said? that s part of the reason for the incomplete but yoeovera i d give him a d. you got a bait and switch. i like the white boards. d on substance. why is that? he talked about thi
the company got the money. coincidence i m sure. no police action group in brookline, massachusetts, wants to ban this from the classroom. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. the group slams the pledge of allegiance says it has no educational value and reminiscent of horrific totalitarian regimes. the kids disagree. i think its a good way of kids symbolizing their country. i don t get why they would ban it. kind of seems odd to me. brookline officials will take up the resolution in november. we ll give you the results. we want to bring in now someone that has strong opinions about the pledge of allegiance as well as the president s jobs speech. former speaker of the house newt gingrich live in manchester, new hampshire. newt, great to see you this morning. what do you think about brookline, massachusetts and the pledge of allegiance may be going away?
recently purchased this suv the vehicle they used to go into times square. again, what we see tonight is this effort to drill down and try and see if this specific and very specific information that comes from a credible source is in fact lining up with other information. greta: catherine, thanks of course we will keep following this story. right now to the president s job speech. all the big names from both sides are here. michelle bachmann, governor huntsman and senator santorum. congressman andrews and paul ryan, governor nikki haley. but first to house majority whip kevin mccarthy. what did you think of the jobs speech? pretty political. seemed like the stimulus plan with stuff added in. kind of vague, no real specifics. a lot of times he told us we had to pass the plan. greta: he said that 17