or weak economy and a housing crash. is he wrong? he s totally wrong. he s diverting attention from the failure of the president s policies on energy, on stimulus, on government spending, on the housing market. the president has failed in those areas. david axelrod is trying to dress it up and excuse that failure by pointing to so-called outside factors. this is the first time they ve done it. no, it wasn t. last year it was the tsunami and before that, it was the arab spring and now it s europe. it diverts attention from what has been in my opinion a failed economic policy. isn t that ironic that they re going to point the finger at europe when many people believe this administration is gearing itself up to be more like europe. yes, but that s politics, isn t it? if you re running into an election with an economy that s not firing on all cylinders you look for an excuse and look to divert attention. it doesn t matter we re trying to make america more like
economy went south due to outside factors, acts of god that he did not control. you can t keep blaming the tsunami for eating your homework. megyn: got to leave it guys. it s a good line. we ll leave it at that. thanks you both, leslie and lars. all the best to you. hurricane irene is barreling up the eastern seaboard and oil refineries are shutting down all aeu long the coastline. we will look at what that means for consumers ahead speaking of high gas prices. in an early edition of kelly s court a well-known weather caster lies to police about being sexually assaulted. now she is blaming those same cops for the legal mess she is in. her turn about next. plus president bush gives his first minute by minute account of what he experienced on 9/11 in an extraordinary interview. that interview and our guest former white house chief of staff andy card in our next hour.
what exactly did those russian spies living next door hope to accomplish? we re going to start today with the new jobless numbers. late today, i spoke with white house economic adviser christina romo. let me ask the simple question that a lot of people are asking, where are the jobs? well, what we learned today is we created 83,000 of them in the month of june, and the president was very clear that that was a step in the right direction but not nearly a big stuff step. what we re focused on is how to make that number bigger. what is your level of concern on a double dip recession? it seems as if there s been a stalling in this growth, that the recovery was moving, maybe the greek debt crisis, a lot of other outside factors. what is your concern today of a double dip recession? you re absolutely right that we ve been through a period of turbulence. what you mentioned about greece and what s going on in europe, certainly we ve gotten mixed
year. we ll give you our top five through the first half of this year. finally, the spies who loved us. what exactly did those russian spies living next door hope to accomplish? we re going to start today with the new jobless numbers. late today, i spoke with white house economic adviser christina romo. roemer. dr. roemer, let me ask the simple question that i lot of people are asking, where are the jobs? well, what we learned today is we created 83,000 of them in the month of june, and the president was very clear that that was a step in the right direction but not nearly a big enough step and that what we re focused on is how to make that number bigger. what is your level of concern on a double dip recession? it seems as if there s been a stalling in this growth, that the recovery was moving, maybe the greek debt crisis, a lot of other outside factors. what is your concern today of a double dip recession? you know, are you absolutely right that we ve been through a period o
money to good teachers and we refuse to accept the union rhetoric that kids are too stupid to learn. every kid can learn and every teacher deserves more pay when those kids learn. it s as simple as that. congressman, what do you think of that? i ll tell you, it s very interesting hearing my friend speak on this issue. the teachers salary will be based on how the kids do on one test throughout the year and it takes in no other outside factors. for example if a child s mother dies the day before an exam that child probably isn t going to do well on the exam and under the current bill a teacher will be held accountable for how a child does on that exam. that s not right. you know, i believe yes teachers should be held accountable for how the students do in the classroom. the way this bill goes about doing it, however, is very wrong and will set us backwards for many years. one other thing, ed. it takes away professional service contracts. you re talking about tenure. right now in flo