advisor christina romer is stepping down. the president says it s because of family commitments but stu varney says the timing of the announcement is suspicious. why? because today is the day of the huge jobs report. a couple of hours from now, we find out what america s unemployment rate is. the news is not likely to be good. it was christina romer s job, basically, to get out front, represent the white house and spin the president s economic policies. a very, very difficult job when those policies are not doing very well. i heard she helped write it. i heard she was a major one. that could be the main story and if you listen to mayor bloomberg who was enforcing the stimulus, he said last time we did this, we built bridges and tunnels and dams. where are they? christina romer was the one that had to get out front every month when the jobs report came out and explain why the stimulus plan which she co-wrote did not cap unemployment at 8%. it went to 10%. she had the very diffic
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because when they they literally drove from the game. they were playing 13-year-olds who were right in the front seat of this country and they re driving home. you come down to the very basis of what s going on. football is the big sport here. soccer, they know more about soccer over there ultimately. you should have told me that. we talk all the time. i didn t know. but at one minute after the hour, i know one thing. you ve been working hard on the news. yes, we have. we have lots to talk about today, alisyn? yes, we have. let s tell you what s happening. president obama s top economic advisor, kristina romer is stepping down. and steve centanni is live in d.c. with the details. what s this all about? another major change in the president s economic team. kristina romer, the head of the council of economic advisors announcing she s leaving the white house early in september to return to her job as an economics professor at the university of california at berkeley
enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. black and white americans differ over president obama. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. a new gallup poll, says 88% of african-americans continue to support president obama but just 38% of white americans feel the president is doing a good job. that is a 50 point differential in the president s job approval rating which is stunning. so what is going on? let s take the white situation first. according to the polls, most white americans don t like the huge expansion of the federal government. they also oppose the big spending increases that the president has in polls. it s simple. white americans fear government control. they don t want the feds telling them what to do and they don t want a bankrupt nation. that attitude was on display in missouri this week when 71% of the voters approved a state statute blocking the federal government from forci
our guests join me to talk about what this means for you getting a job and keeping a job and moving up at work. kristina romer at the white house saying the report shows a continuation of gradual labor market repair a. is this labor market repair or a pause in the labor market repair, bill? this is a part of what i ve been calling the two-step economy. you take two steps forward and take one step back. and this is a step back. and this is a step back. do you think this is a step back? no, it is still a step forward. i would agree with bill that we are having a recovery, this is a sustained recovery. the problem is, when you step back and look at it, we lost over 8 million jobs.