morning. i m t.j. holmes. we are standing by for one of a number of events that will take place this weekend to remember the victims of 9/11. this is in washington, d.c. where we re expecting to see president george w. bush come out and lay a wreath at the pentagon. he will do this there at a stone. it s essentially the impact point where that plane hit the pentagon ten years ago tomorrow. the president not expected to make remarks, not expected an audience there for it. but we will bring it to you as it happens. we re keeping an eye on what is happening in new york city. take a look this morning. a close shot of one of two of the twin reflecting pools. these huge pools are now sitting where the twin towers once stood. the footprints of the towers. this is the memorial, 9/11 memorial, the official memorial will open on monday to the public, but it will be dedicated tomorrow on the ten-year anniversary of the september 11th attacks. as the nation gets ready to pause and reme
structure that this president has put in place. i change dramatically our energy policies, our trade policies. we ve got to open up markets for american goods. we have to clamp down on china that cheats on our trade agreements. we have to get serious about the challenges we face not just play at the edges. this president has i call it a pay phone strategy for a smartphone world. he s locked in the technology and economy of the past. he s trying to stuff quarters into a pay phone that pay phone isn t connected any more. we have smartphones. we have to have an economic strategy which is modern, updated, structured for the new economy. greta: i don t mean to suggest you don t have a program that is broad based and hits different areas i m just focusing on them because we have a limited amount of time. let me ask you about the tax code. again, things don t get changed overnight. the simpson-bowles commission wanted to get rid of the 3300 earmarks as some call it.
lead. rl polls show tea partiers back perry over romney. romney announced his economic plan on tuesday. president obama s strategy is a pay phone strategy and we re in a smart phone world. reporter: romney promises $111 11.5 million new jobs. when the tax corporations, the employees will pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. so corporations are people. reporter: republicans wait to hear what president obama will announce in his jobs plan tomorrow. we tried president obama s approach. it s failed. it s time for something new. reporter: republican leaders sent the president a letter asking for a meeting to preview his ideas, not likely, the white house says. i wasn t aware that when the republicans drew up hr-1 they invited democrats to write it with them. reporter: awaiting mr. obama s speech tomorrow and the
so we re going to have to change what he s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them in the pay phone and thinking can t figure out why it s not working. it s not connected anymore, mr. president. your pay phone strategy does not work in a smart phone world. ezra, tax cuts, free trade, on its face it seems like a boilerplate economic plan for any republican candidate. any big surprises here? no big surprises except for the pay phone analogy, i m not really sure what that s supposed to mean. the plan is deeply, deeply comprehensive and sweeping. i think it s a political doctrine that s very effective. it s a 59-point plan. the fact that romney has people saying how big it is, how specific it is, that s a real win for the guy. but beyond that it is a broad wish list of conservative items from tax cuts that are fairly reaggressive to something called
defend that and get away from it? it sounds like romney will continue to attack the president, maybe not so much perry. listen to this. this president really has a i call it a pay phone strategy for a smart phone world. he s locked in the technology of the past and the economy of the past. he s trying to stuff quarters into a pay phone. that pay phone isn t connected anymore. we got smart phones. we have to have an economic strategy which is modern, updated, structured for the new economy. i just think that mitt romney just had a sputnik moment, i don t know. let s talk about the white house. the white house was put in a corner and it wasn t it was by none other than abc really yesterday who really pinned jay carney to the wall when it came to the apparent double standard they now have when it comes to inflammatory rhetoric from the stump in the political forum. and that s exactly what i think everybody would agree jimmy hoffa put james hoffa put forward over the weekend when