americans, 53%, feel president obama is greatly or moderately to blame for the economy. more people still blame former president george bush but president obama won t be running against george bush next year. with me, obama s 2008 presidential campaign advisor and now senior white house advisor. thank you, david, for joining us. before we get to the politics of it, which is fascinating to all of us, let s get to the president s jobs bill. wow would you be open to breaking up this bill for the parts that you know you could get agreement on? well, the president has been very clear as he s traveled across the country and in the speech to congress that he thinks this the american jobs act would have a profound impact on our economy right now. it would put a lot more people back to work, put more money in the pockets of workers, put construction workers, teachers, veterans back to work, help small businesses all across the country. this is what the economy needs right now. the
going to make this a make or break. we saw it on the faa when they shut down the federal aviation administration, we re seeing it now on this debate about fema, we should be able to have a legitimate debate about emergency aid. why link that into a government shutdown or not. i ll give the senate democratic leader most of the credit. he manufactured a crisis all week. about disaster when there s no crisis. everybody knows we re going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares. u.s. lawmakers are supposed to be in recess this week, but senate majority leader harry reid has ordered a monday session for a possible vote on a compromised package. and with more assertive vigor, president barack obama is talking job creation. he s taking his pitch on the road. this hour he ll be in seattle, washington. last night, he delivered his message in the nation s capital to the congressional black caucus. this was his straight talk message and challenge.
on this sunday. from the cnn center, welcome to your cnn sunday morning. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. 5:00 a.m. in st. louis. 3:00 a.m. in berkeley. as always, a special good morning to our service men and women watching on the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. i m t.j. holmes. let s start with politics and with the president. he s headed out west today to washington state, has a couple of re-election fundraisers on his schedule. also has a social madia town hall on monday, he ll be talking about jobs, of course. last night he had this message during a speech to the congressional black caucus. i m going to press on for jobs. i m going to press on for equality. i m going to press on for the sake of our children. i m going press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and p
about jobs and also trying to raise a little money. jobs were the emphasis last night at a speech to the congressional black caucus. some in the congressional black caucus have been critical of the president saying he hasn t focused enough on african-american issues including african-american unemployment which right now is at 16.7%. listen to the president telling the crowd he expects them to be with him. i m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and press on. let me bring in athena jones this morning from washington. good morning to you. the president last night, some in that room had been critical of him. did he tell them what they wanted to hear last night and what was the reaction afterwards? well, you know, it was a fiery speech and he really riled up the crowd all the way through. he wa
struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and press on. take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes, shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are going to press on. we have work to do. take off your bedroom slippers he implores the crowd. the 2012 re-election campaign was the focus of some of the talk shows on sunday where a shot was taken at debbie wasserman shultz over the president s record. now two and a half years later we have turned the corner. we are no longer dropping like a rock, we re moving forward. we ve had 18 straight months of job growth, added 2.4 million jobs to the private sector month after month, save the american