40% of african-american children live in poverty. rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we ve been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that s what we re working on and i think that the president has heard us and i m very proud of congresswoman waters and chairman cleburne in the congressional black caucus. when you look at what took place in august with the black caucus, five cities, a jobs tour. what we did was get the jobs debate on the agenda where now the president has the space and the wherewithal to be able to use his platform, the bully pulpit to say, look, we have to work together to create jobs. congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of califor
running. it would be wiser just to sit back. he s got some time. but, look, it is chaotic in there. there say lot of people. it is cementing. y you could be president. that s big. that sounds like someone is dabbling, that s for sure. there is a big speech at the reagan presidential library tonight. republican fund-raisers across the country this week and word from friend and the former new jersey governor tom kean that christie is now seriously considering a late entry into the gop race. here is tonight s truth. he isn t running. and while he s listening closely, very closely, to friends and fund-raisers begging him to reconsider, the best bet is that governor christie stays on the sidelines. why? well, for starters, the governor s greatest strength as a politician is he s viewed as a straight shooter, a guy who calls it like he sees it. and this is how he sees himself. i don t feel like i m ready to be president. i don t want to run for president. i don t have the f
as we told you earlier, president obama is in the midst of a three-day funding and jobs tour on the west coast. he will spend a few days in california whose 55 electoral votes have been in the democrats column for years now. if you want to sound smart, tell your friends that the last republican presidential candidate to win california in the general election was george h.w. bush in 1988. since then california voted for bill clinton, al gore, john kerry and president obama last time around. before that, the state had a republican run that dated back to 1964. enough with the real news, let s huddle up around the water cooler to watch the return of saturday night live the season premiere hosted by alec baldwin who hosts, it seems, once every six weeks.
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in the question of the day: will house speaker john boehner s job plan pass the house and senate? well, 23% of you say yes. 77% say no. panel, i guess we shouldn t be surprised. democrats do control the senate. i can t imagine they ll be excited about passing anything that john boehner puts together. steve, what do you make of the conversation? it sounded like today that speaker boehner was hinting at room to compromise. you have democrats in the senate who aren t excited about president obama. shannon: that s true. i agree they won t be excited about john boehner s. look, the most important or the most interesting fact to emerge today was that president obama never actually called john boehner to talk about his jobs bill. i mean this is a president who had campaigned in the midwest, you know, on his jobs tour in the midwest before he announced this bill. and said i m going to propose this jobs bill and campaign against republicans if they reject it. he opened and closed his spee