extend jobless benefits. the same people who didn t have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldn t offer relief to middle class americans. let s get more from richard wolf who s at the white house. already, house minority leader john boehner has issued a response and in part he says the president knows that republican support extending unemployment insurance and doing it in a fiscally responsible way by cutting it elsewhere in the $3 trillion budget. the president session some are playing politics here, but who do you believe has the attention of most americans. what you have is the president coming out with regular americans and republicans trying to make this about a broader, kind of more abstract argument about the deficit, there is a real ideological difference, but at a time when people are suffering in a struggling economy, most of it really holds some sway. a majority of senators