from my administration who have championed this from the beginning. secretary salazar, secretary solis, nancy sutley, to governor bro brown, mayor villaraigosa, congressman gravela is here. we re grateful for your presence here. i want to recognize rodriguez, the current president of the ufw. most of all i want to thank helen chavez. you know, in the years to come, generations of americans will stand where we stand and see a piece of history.
it represented everyone across the board. i saw that, secretary, and tomorrow is a year anniversary. and i ve seen they have not voted for a jobs bill. they ve done nothing but block. and i think it s time for them to move it forward. secretary solis, i m going to have to leave it there. have a great weekend. thank you so much, reverend. still ahead, president obama is fired up after the convention pounding his message and giving a big shoutout to former president clinton. somebody e-mailed me after his speech and said you need to appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. that was pretty good. a new poll today shows the president got a big bounce out of the convention. but first, bill o reilly really steps in it with some talk about women s rights. stay with us. [ female announcer ] you can learn a lot about a minivan
think there s one point there that mitt romney made that i think is worth paying attention to. which is about what you inherit. secretary solis is there. i was still there at the time this president inherited a nightmarish downturn and worked very hard to get the momentum back in place. now, this week, madam secretary, glen hubbard wrote in the wall street journal that mitt romney s plan will add 12 million jobs in his first term. i mean, is that even a realistic projection given his policies he s proposing? if we continue down the same path he proposes which is to give tax breaks to the wealthy and not close loopholes or look at the desire of bringing jobs back home and making those good investments in our safety system because we you know, i just don t see us going down a good
work. there s excuse for inaction when there s so many americans still trying to get back on their feet. joining me now is hilda solis, e secretary of labor. and former governor of ohio ted strickland who was with the president on his bus tour yesterday. thanks for joining me. great to be here. it s great to be here with you, hilda. good to see you, too, governor. now, let me start with you, secretary solis. how important is this highway bill the president just signed, how important is this for the economy? well, it s a good signal to the public. for the first time in a long time you see the congress working with the white house, with the president and with all energy and effort focused on job creation. it took a lot of work. the president went out and talked to the public about it. now we re going to see hopefully a million private sector jobs created. and then at least 2 million that
will help keep people employed during that time. more importantly this is a good signal. we re on a good trajectory. we are adding job. what i think about on these days are we above the line? and that s important. we added 80,000 jobs in the june job report. 4.4 million private sector jobs. in three years he s done this. i want you to hold that point a minute, because 80,000 jobs added in the june numbers. wish it could have been more but it s addition. 28 straight months of private sector job growth. 4.4 million jobs add in the that period yet the opponent is saying it s like a punch in the gut when we see a continual pattern of job growth trying to come back from this recession. seems like it s not fast enough to him, secretary solis.