willing to make retrenchments in programs like medicare. democrats, when you get right down to it, really aren t. and if you can t do that, you can t get into the big ones and make some serious cuts in the growth, you can t succeed on a deal like this, in doing anything big enough to matter. and we head into another election cycle. i don t know if it s going to happen, it s not going to happen as a result of these negotiations. all right, brit, thanks. house budget committee chairman paul ryan says he will stay put and not run to the senate from wisconsin and that will likely open the door from former governor tommy thompson to make a bid for the seat and sources close to thompson say he s decided to run and incumbent democrat herb cole announced this past week he will not seek reelection next year. stocks were mixed dow lost 59 and s&p 500 lost 1/2 a point and nasdaq a point. and u.s. goods in april stopped a nine month run of greater output and manufacturing production fell 4/1
when people don t respond to mon money. bret: tucker. we respond to money. pakistan has an enormous lobbying operation in washington and tomorrow on that and illustrates a lot of people you recognize are in the ploy of pakistan right now and they look a lot like our enemies at this point. and charles said, harbored in afghanistan pre-9/11 and pakistan afternoon and to our enis miss, ask yourself which country is a greater threat to the u.s. and the world. pakistan or north korea? probably pakistan and almost nobody recognized that or said so out loud and i think that s about to change. bret: but they provide 70% of the supply routes into afghanistan and the exit the u.s. troops use to get out. they are he geographically necessary and the british discovered this on the retreat from kabul. you need pakistan if you re
not and makes it very complicated when people don t respond to mon money. bret: tucker. we respond to money. pakistan has an enormous lobbying operation in washington and tomorrow on that and illustrates a lot of people you recognize are in the ploy of pakistan right now and they look a lot like our enemies at this point. and charles said, harbored in afghanistan pre-9/11 and pakistan afternoon and to our enis miss, ask yourself which country is a greater threat to the u.s. and the world. pakistan or north korea? probably pakistan and almost nobody recognized that or said so out loud and i think that s about to change. bret: but they provide 70% of the supply routes into afghanistan and the exit the u.s. troops use to get out. they are he geographically necessary and the british discovered this on the retreat from kabul. you need pakistan if you re
4/10 of a percentage point last month and construction of new homes fell 10.6% in april and building permits were also down 4%. those numbers paint a picture of a recovery that may be stuck in neutral. correspondent, doug mcelway looks at problems in the job market. what it sees as a key sign of economic growth. over the last 14 months, just in a little bit over a year, we ve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. but job seekers are still packing employment centers like this one in arlington, virginia. your application, please. this closer d.c. suburb home to many workers have been sheltered from many of the unemployment ravaging the country and even here, 1500 job seekers a month since the recession began. a truer sobering picture of job numbers is found not in the president s speeches, but
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