years, and their answer to the problem is to double down with yet another speech that americans are sick and tired of. i think we need to get serious about putting people back to work and good paying jobs again in america, and right now this president is content with speeches and forensic contests to see obviously how well he can deliver to a joint session of congress that we just don t need. jenna: just a final question about the election overall. i was looking at a report put out by the democratic national committee about the tea party poll sews and whether or not republicans are taking on extreme, as they call them policies for job creation policies as well. they were mixing the tea party movement and the republican party together and attacking both. my question for you is, do you accept the tea party movement as part of the republican party, is that the way that you view the tea party movement? or is this something separate? and the reason why i m asking this is i m curious whether
this law. lower court rulings. a lot of folks hoped, those who want this go to the supreme court this would be a slightly different ruling. that you would get to the issue of that individual mandate because without getting to that part of the ruling or that part of the argument this doesn t really set the case up for a direct route to the supreme court. i would be surprised if it is not appealed anyway. but it doesn t give us the conflict with the slit of the different circuits ruling on the merits of the individual mandate. this case doesn t go that far. it makes it a little tougher to factor into the rest of the cases out there and put it directly on point with those. it may be appealed on a standing issue but won t be appealed to the court on basis whether or not that individual mandate is constitutional which is the key question in all of the other big cases out there, jenna. jenna: shannon, thank you for the instant analysis. thank you very much. you got it. jon: just in washing
the american jobs act. in fact after he sends that piece of legislation forward, he wants congress to act. the time for talking is over. the time for partisan bickering is over. it is incredit whether i important that congress act on this piece of legislation that we debate it, we pass it and create and save jobs and make sure americans are back working which is exactly where they want to be. jenna: and, melody, i say some people, i don t mean to generalize that way, there certainly has been a lot of folks waiting to hear what the president s plan is. so this is, this is, you know him personally. so the question for you today is, is the president have his hart and soul in his plan? is this something he is willing to fight for? is this something he is about or is this a starting point for negotiation? how are we to take the plan today? this plan has been developed after weeks and weeks of conversations here in the white house but also sitting on the foundation of the president traveli
not you re preparing for a third party candidate to enter the race and whether or not you re working against that. well, i mean, no, i mean we are not i believe that the republican party is part of the conservative fiscal movement in this country that includes republicans, some democrats, a lot of independents, that believe as a matter of fact this president himself promised that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. he didn t deliver on that. he promised that he would get the debt under control. he s put us on a trajectory to oblivion here in two and a half years. i would say the issues that matter to the tea party, the debt, the deficit, jobs, the economy, those are the same issues that the republican national committee believe in and guess what, those are the same issues that most americans believe in, and that s why the democrats, and the dnc can continue to play small ball, they want to talk about evolution, they want to talk about the tea party and
republicans are saying time for washington to get out of the way of the american people. jon? jon: mike emanuel inside the capitol building. mike, thank you. jenna: for more on this let s bring in one of the president s top advisers. melody barnes is president of the domestic policy council. she will talk a little bit about the jobs plan tonight. i was looking at usa today , the newspaper, usa today. , did a big spread talking to average americans on the speech about the president s speech tonight. i like to share a quote from one. people they spoke to. todd, from san francisco. voted for president obama but i don t know if the words are there. i think he gives a fabulous speech. i don t think he is too ibt lex wall but nobody seems to be listen. why is tonight different and why should we be listening this time? jenna, thanks so much for having me on this afternoon. i think the reason tonight is so important because the president is going to say too congress and the american public