now, that s what we d do if we were a serious country. gop candidates trying to show they have the foreign policy chops to be commander in chief. we ll have all of the highlights just ahead. american students arrested in egypt facing more interrogation today. they re families now speaking as cairo erupts for a fifth day. and tailspin. incredible video of the chopper crash and the more amazing pictures of the pilot walking away from it on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. happy pre-thanksgiving day. i can smell the turkey now. can t you? so can i. can t wait. food, football, family. three fs what could be better? and then food coma. sleeping afterwards. at least you fall asleep and aren t suffering through the feeling of you re going to croak. anyway, ali and christine are off, obviously. i m carol costello along side alina cho. last night s republican debate. disagreeing on just about everything. the best
martha: karen, you want to address that before before we ghoa. first of all it s not a jobs bill, it s a stimulus. that s what we should refer to it as. the white house doesn t want to call it a stimulus because they know that s a toxic word. if the president really cared about infrastructure, he wouldn t be doing this through a second stimulus, he d be out there urging congress to pass a six-year, fully funded highway bill. that s how you get money into the system and it happens with a great deal of transparency and accountability than you would have a stimulus. don t forget it s the stimulus that allowed the funding of solyndra and a lot of these other failed risk taking that hasn t actually produced anything good for the economy. martha: got to go, ladies. there s so many things, obvious lerks that are intertwined in this whole conversation about class warfare and what s best, how to get this economy working again, and we re touching on sort of all of those tentacles to this. ki
then? martha: coming up with idea that is would flatten the tax code. if there s one thing i hear about this whole debate, karen, people want to throw the tax code out the winnow and start from scratch, do something that is fair and also forces corporations to pay the taxes they owe rather than having these loopholes. i don t like the word fair when it comes to the tax code. i think what you want is something that is easier to understand, so you want a more simple tax code which involves tax reform, you want something that is far more transparent. no one would argue even republicans would argue there are a number, far too many tax loopholes that are difficult to understand and at the end of the day it s tough to say who s really paying what. so you want something that s simple, something that s far more transparent and something where people can really be held accountable. you have far too much money held overseas as opposed to being repatriated into theun and being invested here
is kind of interesting. so now john boehner, the house speaker, is calling out the president for what he says is pitting citizens of this country against each other. watch: we are not going to engage in class warfare. the president is out there doing it every day. i frankly think it s unfortunate. because our job is to help all americans. not to pit one set of americans against another. do you think that s what s happening? the president is clearly trying to do it. and it s wrong. the president and i have a pretty good relationship. it s been a little frosty here in the last few weeks. but we ve got a pretty good relationship. martha: a little frosty! says john boehner. karen henretty joins me, and kirsten powers, fox news contributor. this is a conversation in this country right now and it s very interesting, when you look at these numbers, wall street making money hand over fist right now, in fact, a lot more under president obama, and this is after the regulations that
even bring that up. bill: they re going to roll this again and again. by the way, halloween is full of surprises! and i just want you to know that karen henretty is now ready. we plugged everything into the wall, she s the former nrcc communications director and karen, good morning to you. good morning! bill: thank you for joining our discussion here. sure. bill: i think the point in this and a bigger picture is that the white house has the bigger mega phone. and i don t know how much the american people listen to the message out of the house when they say we passed 15 different jobs bills, because they don t make headlines, karen. well, i don t think that the american people are giving any credit to congress or the white house. i mean, if you look at the polls, there s an all-time low of confidence in what government is doing, and that s right, the president does have the bully pulpit right now, and the question is what is he doing with that bully pulpit and what is he doing wit