there are nearly 4 million of the long-term unemployed. perhaps, the biggest part. when i sat down exclusively with president obama, our conversation quickly turned to them. thanks for doing this, mr. president. great to be with you. your big push is whatever you cannot accomplish with congress you will take executive action or issue executive orders. how much can you really accomplish doing that? well, first of all, my big push is making sure we re focused on opportunity. making sure that every single day all of us in washington are trying to think about ways that we can help folks get good jobs, make sure that they are trained for the good jobs that are out there, make sure that those jobs pay, make sure our kids are getting a great education. those are the issues that the american people still very much are concerned about. and obviously there s going to be more than we can do if congress is able to break through some of the gridlock and if we re able to, for example, pass i
what constitutes as a single serving of potato chips and perhaps just how salty those chips should be. is he hemmed in or is this a huge power grab? you cannot allow him to regulate poe pat toe chips in this way. you don t like like you eat potato chips anyway. i don t. okay. you heard democrats say this about george w. bush. he was governing. my point is, i wrote this in the yahoo! column yesterday, if you re going to use executive orders and you can get some stuff done, don t use it just to add on to government or expand the government but also think about reform. i think if you look at the poll numbers, the lack of confidence that people now have in this president, not just to get things through congress, to actually have solutions to fix the problem. that s because they have spent so much time talking about expanding government and very little time talking about making it more efficient and there are things that you can do with
how far he thinks his go it alone attitude towards congress can get him and the rest of us. thanks for doing this, mr. president. great to be with you, jake. so your big bush is whatever you cannot accomplish with congress is to take executive orders. how much can you really accomplish by doing that? first of all, my big push is making sure we re focused on opportunity, making sure that every single day all of us in washington are trying to think about ways that we can help folks get good jobs, make sure that they are trained for the good jobs that are out there, make sure that those jobs pay, make sure our kids are et getting a great education. that s what they are still very much concerned about and obviously there s going to be more that we can do if congress is able to break some of the gridlock and if we re able to, for example, pass immigration reform, that is going to add growth to our economy, reduce our deficits. you don t seem confident that
whole range of topics. but i began by asking him just how far he thinks this new go it alone attitude towards congress will actually get him and get us. thanks for doing this, mr. president. great to be with you, jake. reporter: your big push in the state of the union and here is whatever you cannot accomplish with congress you will take executive action or issue executive orders. how much can you really accomplish doing that? well, first of all, my big push is making sure we re focused on opportunity, making sure that every single day, all of us in washington are trying to think about ways that we can help folks get good jobs, make sure that they re trained for the good jobs that are out there, make sure that those jobs pay, make sure our kids are getting a great education. those are the issues that the american people still very much are concerned about. and obviously, there s going to be more that we can do if congress is able to break through some of the gridlock. and if wire
taxes and more regulation. in his state of the union address tuesday, the president is expected to address the growing economic inequality in the u.s. he will suggest ways to help the poor and the middle class. he will work with congress where possible and also ready to react on his own. we can start by extending unemployment benefits for 1.66 million americans. pass a farm bill. pass immigration reform. infrastructure, a ray of things we can do together, no one is going to get everything they want. also the president can save the country. who he not going to wait. he has a pen and a phone to move things forward. that state of the union address set for 9 p.m. eastern time on tuesday night. of course, can you see it here on fox. jamie? we will all be watching. steve, thank you so much. you bet. eric? jamie, more of what we can expect to hear from the president during the state of the union address and possible reaction. let s now turn to louisiana senator david vitter. sea