they should pass it and i ll sign it right away. the biggest hit is in new jersey. 90,000 lost benefits as a search for a new job. that s roughly 1% of the state s population. joining us now democratic congressman rush holt of new jersey. congressman, thanks for being with us. good morning, richard. we were just mentioning your state. the hardest hit here. what do you see as the real-world impacts. have constituents been reaching out to you. ? these are not numbers, these are people and it s not just one person it s the whole family and you say 90,000. that s the number of people who lost their benefits a week ago, but there s about another 90,000 that over the next six months will lose their benefits and probably another 90,000 over the six months after that. some of these are people all of these who lost their benefits are people who were unemployed for a long time and that s
think he would have been governor? i think bob mcdonnell would have been elected as well. congressman tom davis, thank you for your time. in addition to your political career and not one, but two new jersey hot line political trivia genius awards, you also won the golden mug, beating out martin frost and rush holt in the legends division. rush holt is a former jeopardy champion. i also happen to be a champ. welcome to the winner s circle. we might face off this march. better watch out. thanks. tomorrow morning at 8:45 eastern for the golden cup, free polish food and appearance on the cycle. melissa harris perry and mara skiav campo, you will not see
the clock with five time jeopardy champion, rush holt. falling short against former congressman tom davis. here is a question that stomach stumped all of them. 200 point question. we re going to be on permanent defense for the foreseeable future. is the bleak assessment of a republican strategist writing in a memo revealed this week about his party s prospects in what major state? time. i bet watson wouldn t have known that either, but the answer was california, the golden state. that memo made big news this week as republican party and america s biggest state just dying off. that s next. except when it s too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn t affect my job. you missed the meeting again last week! it doesn t affect my family. your coughing woke me up again. i wish you d take me to the park.
intelligence organization. i find that very troubling. the cia should not be executing warfare. it should be helping policymakers and leaders helping them get the intelligence they need to avoid war. so, yes, it should be taken away from the cia. it should be put in a chain of command, where it is not gs-13s who are deciding, you know, making the decision of whether there is sufficient evidence. representative rush holt, thank you, sir, for joining us. thank you. stay with us. ed the day s top lines are coming up, featuring a fund-raiser to end all fund-raisers. they said it, not me. there are a lot of people who would like to see me and you, i notice. that would be great that would be a fund-raiser to end them all, wouldn t it?
to protect innocent lives i say is unprecedented. the fact is, this has kept americans alive, also helped people in the middle east. so i think we should stop being apologetic about drones. of course, there are others oh who say we should start being apologetic. and i m joined by representative rush holt, a democrat from new jersey. good afternoon, sir. martin, thank you. thank you for joining us. tomorrow, rafik raymond, who we just saw earlier in our broadcast, will brief select members of congress on the death of his mother and the injuries subjected to his children. is it your hope that by putting a face on the impact of these attacks, the administration may be minded to use drones much less frequently and much more transparently? well, yes, that is my hope. they should be used very rarely. you know, when rafik raymond talks about this, he says no one has told him why his mother was killed. and in a particularly horrific death. when death strikes from the sky,