for 1.6 million americans. patent reform. farm bill. there are things they can get done. but the president is not going to tell the american people that he s going to wait for congress. he s going to move forward in areas like job training, education, manufacturing, on his own to try to restore opportunity for american families. and how do you do some of that on your own? have you identified specific presidential prerogatives that you are willing to absolutely. as in? stay tuned for tuesday night. but the president views the power of his presidency in two areas. his pen, which is executive orders, also the phone where he can pick up the phone, bring together american citizens, businesses to commit on key issues. one example would be we had a college opportunity summit a few weeks ago with over 100 college presidents came in to commit to expand access to college for hundreds of thousands of americans. it is a bully pulpit. absolutely. we do that in big ways and some
just seem to consistently be trying to pile new regulations on small businesses. some of the other proposals coming out that we were anxious to get a chance to talk about, there s so much communication right now about the new immigration reform and, of course, some of our members are concerned with patent reform, businesses have new products and have trouble getting patents. they fight big businesses who seem too much the edge on those things. hey, chris, can i ask can you a question? do you think the administration has a real sense of how some of these policies affect small business? look, when you re writing them down on paper, you re in washington and europe not the guy running the dry-cleaner in cleveland, you may not think all the way down to what does this mean to that particular person. do you think anyone there is really paying attention to the
for a second term as president. what would obama phase two look like with senior white house adviser david plouffe. and then he has been president for 3 1/2 years, and talk is cheap. sizing up mitt romney with former republican presidential hopeful rick santorum. plus, days away from a supreme court decision which could gut the health care law. is there a plan b? doctor and senator john barrasso and congressman chris van hollen join us. and the cnn chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and matt bayh will join us. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. there was a showdown this week with mitt romney and president obama giving speeches in ohio. an economic growth amid tightening polls, white house advisers said that the president would use the speech to reframe his economic argument. he tied mitt romney tightly to george w. bush and outlined his goals. that is my vision for america. education, energy, innovation, infrastructure. flashback,
was the bill to get done. they already passed. in the senate, the trade agreements, patent reform. the f.a.a. bill. the veterans payroll tax holiday. there is not a lot left they could do. what do you think? eric: i have an idea. i brought this out. remember this, this was the gasoline thing. we did the special oil and gas are down since we did this. full screen. he can create a million job, obama can. probably be re-elected if he did it. repatriot the $2 trillion in corporate bank accounts overseas. bring them back. tax holiday no, interest whatever. no taxes. 25% of it, the i.r.s. can escrow 25% of that. companies that bring the money back have to use it to hire u.s. pleas and buy equipment. cost to taxpayer zero. nothing wrong with the plan. i would create jobs overnight. bob: it s a great idea. it was introduced as legislation and defeated. eric: not this one. dana: one other thing
they call it something only a billionaire could love. and the latest jobs numbers. the unemployment rate dropping a bit. we re going to show you some americans are now looking for and finding jobs in asia. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we may be hearing any moment now from one of the women who reportedly accused herman cain of sexual harassment. her lawyer is waiting for approval from the national restaurant association, which was once led by herman cain, to issue that statement. you re looking at a live picture. the cameras are set up outside his office in washington, d.c., the office of joel bennett. brian todd is standing by. what are you learning? we re about to hear, we suspect, from joel bennett on whether or not they worked out an agreement with the national restaurant association. wolf, we re hearing that something could come soon from mr. bennett within way or the other to let us know if we re going to get some kind of a statement from his cli