about jobs perhaps. you have the 2013 budget. you ve got 12 appropriations bills that have to make it through. we have a possible continuing resolution for 2012. there s a lot of things that need to happen here. what do you think you learned and congress learned so we can get the job done when it comes to giving attention to jobs? what congress has learned i hope is that you have to put the american people first. you can t put an ideology first. going on the other side has been to try to state it el kwrepbtly by the senate majority leader. our objective is to get rid of barack obama. that s not the american people s skwraefpbltd their agenda is to get back to work. it s an american agenda. we have to put people back to work. oh, by the way, when we put people back to work, that impacts the budget, the national debt, increases the taxes that come in here.
means jobs. the number one job we have as a congress must be creating jobs for the american people. both parties share power in washington. and both parties need to take responsibility for improving this economy. joining me now john larsen. he s also the chair of the house democratic caucus. thank you for your time today. happy to be with you, rich. you just heard him say it s the president s responsibility to deal with jobs for all americans. yes, indeed. absolutely. you may have heard our conversation with michael grimm, tea party supporting lawmaker. when we see the arguing and the friction, some have to ask how can we work moving forward on jobs if we see anything but bipartisan ship. well, first of all, we do have to move forward on jobs. certainly we have to end this nonsense that s going on. we just got through a self-made
there are still answers unsolved or unanswered. the more answers we can get the better off we are to settling down and getting our thoughts back together and trying to go on with our lives. and the communities here are almost like sister communities separated by the connecticut river here. and this weekend they have the annual sort of creek festival for children. there was talk of cancelling that earlier this week. we re told it will move forward and likely have some events that will pay tribute to celina. just a fifth grader. michelle franzen with the latest on that case. thank you democrats want to put the debt debacle behind them. they re already talking jobs, jobs, jobs. it s now time for congress to get back to our regularly scheduled programming, and that
washington. to determine if russia modeled in our election or the sensor which they did. the fbi, the house and senate intelligence committee. the investigation by the house has received a lot of criticism over chairman tenney shared information with him and not the entire committee. the white house has denied it had any hand in not being done and was not an attempt to circumvent other members of congress. on friday the committee s top democrat, adam schiff went to the white house review the documents for himself in this morning on the state of the union, he is still not buy a new administration s explanation. a deputy assistant to the white house informed me when i went to see them that these are exactly the same materials shown to the chairman. this is a very interesting point. how does the white house the white house know these are the same materials shown to the chairman of the white house was
the president did win the election and get in the way back machine and take you to the first press congress. he said i got got reelect that moneys i have jack up the taxes. when it comes to the deficit i argued to a balanced approach and part of that made sure the wealthiest americans pay more . every voters understood that was an important debate and the majority of the voters agreed with me. more voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me. gretchen: if income taxes go up, should president obama make spending cuts as well? 90 percent said yes. you know why they say yes? that would be fair. if you are going to makelet cuts and increase taxes. people want fair want all