green slime. this is backwoods mississippi. daily flashback on this day in 1964 when the remains of three missing civil rights activists were found. the murders of the three men galvanized the nation. al all-white jury convicted rather acquitted 12 of the 19 men indicted on federal charges of violating the victims civil rights after local officials refused to prosecute the murder case. it took 41 years for one of those acquitted to be brought to justice. he was the only man to serve more than six years in jail for the crime, later memorialized in the film mississippi burning. and before a friendly hometown crowd in chicago, president obama tried to separate himself from the debt ceiling battle that has turned even more voters against washington. we know we ve still got a lot of work to do on the economy. now, i hope we can avoid another
self-inflicted wound like we just saw over the last couple of weeks. we don t have time to play these partisan games. we ve got too much work to do. nia is a political reporter for the washington post, kara lee from the wall street journal and bill burton, founder of priorities usa and father of oscar. most importantly. the most important baby. carol, first to you because i was reading your pool reports at midnight. you got back very late from chicago. you were the representative for all of the rest of us as the pool reporter for the white house. yes. press corps in chicago. tell us well, jennifer hudson sang happy birthday. the president was in a really good mood. he hadn t been out of washington for over a month and hadn t been
once you get to washington, there s only so long you can go. i mean, there are a number of people there whose tray tables are not in the full upright and locked position. austan gooslbee, chairman of the council of economic advisers for two more days, and as jon stewart put it giddy as a schoolgirl about getting out of dodge. let s get back to our panel. it s clear that gooslbee has one of the toughest jobs in washington, going back to chicago to be an economics professor at the university of chicago business school. but it is a very big climb for them to do anything on the economy short term. yeah, and this is going to be the question of this campaign. you see mitt romney. his slogan so far has been obama s not working, meaning he s not working on the jobs front and that he s not working for the country, and you see him out there really trying to channel the anxiety that people have about the economy. and carol, mitt romney, who is getting slammed by first sarah palin for bein
to their work that they would never compromise safety. that s why they re on the job not being paid and that s why we say to congress, you come back from your vacation, you re getting paid, and help us pay these american workers. not only the faa workers, but the construction workers. this is not the way to treat the american worker, particularly when we have such high unemployment. if we want to bring the unemployment workers down, let s put 70 thus thousand people back to work. that s the way to put the talk with the walk the walk with the talk about putting people to work. and congress gives great speeches about jobs and putting people to work. well, the way to do it is to pass the bill, come back to washington, come back from your vacations for a couple hours. you re being paid, let s help pay american workers. mr. secretary, you were a republican congress member from illinois. i mean you know this place better than anyone. how do you explain the fact that
the prayer shouldn t be in the unemployed workers. the prayer should be pass the bill so that american workers can come back to work. it s easily done. they have done it on 20 other occasions. there s a procedure for doing it. come back to washington, pass the bill, let s get american workers back to work, let s put all talk about creating jobs, all the talk about job is now the one priority, let s make it a priority today. pass the bill, american workers go back on construction sites and hard-working, dedicated safety workers at the faa go back to work. mr. secretary, are you on the phone with congressman micah and senator rockefeller and schumer and harry reid? when you look at where these small airports are that the republicans clearly were targeting harry reid, they were targeting jay rockefeller, you know, the house knew exactly what it was doing. everybody is playing the game here. are you on the phone with them