saying and the american people are saying is they want the congress that works for the american people and that s what we need. sadly, we haven t seen any of that from the republican side. justin, do you see a danger in that approach? well, i do. look, the president is a president of the united states. he s a leader and he s the one who on monday will have been in office for five years and to hear him talking about trying to do things to help jobs, where trillions of dollars more in debt than we were five years ago when he took office. and his so-called stimulus i m sorry. one second cause i don t know if you heard my question. i m just asking do you see a danger in the president saying that listen, guys, if you re not going to do it, i m gog do i m the chief executive and use my own power to get things done. what is your take on that? it depends what he wants to do. if he s usurping the power of congress, we do have separation of powers in this country. i think that he sh
like i look like him. i don t think so. there you go. justin, you re all good, too. i m not trying to show favoritism. just saying. that s fine. thank you. bye-bye. richie if happy days. well, he s very talented. richie was cute. a loophole in obamacare lowering the quality of some coverage. coming up, we re going to tell you how so-called bare bone plans are still being offered and it s all legal. and finding a great job can be tough these days. but some baby boomers are looking past the unemployment lines and changing their careers late into their work lives. we re going to tell you what s behind all of that male announcer ] alka-seltze plus presents thcold truth.
highways, bridges, high speed rail, all stuff that we can get done in this country if we choose to work together. governors, whether they re democrat or republican governors saying come on, washington. give us the funds so we can truly be the laboratories for democracy and for growing this economy. what s happening here in washington is that the republican governors are republican members of congress are listening to their gubernatorial colleagues who are saying let s create jobs. justin, i ll give you the last word here. last word is bigger government, more government spending is an easy solution. but it doesn t address the real issues of what we re going to do about the federal deficit, which also, that amount of debt also hurts economic growth in our country and that needs to be factored in as well. okay. justin, richard, richard, by the way, your voice, you sound like my good friend, malcolm jamal warner, theo from the cosby show. people think i m him, too.
just understand south africans, south africa. i had a prejudice before i went to south africa because, you know, i was sort of really disgusted by apartheid as a young man. what i needed to understand was how mandela, what he meant to the people of south africa. that was my first stage of preparation. once i could understand that, then i could sort of tackle the was it daunting? absolutely, yeah. i told justin a big responsibility. everyone loves mandela. he s a worldwide citizen. to lay that on a filmmaker s shoulders, it s daunting. so justin, how did you come to the realization that he was the only one that could play mandela? right from the beginning, he was my first choice. you knew? i knew. i m from manchester, england. i went there, lived there for a year and talked to people who
senate majority leader harry reid has not yet commented on paul s new delay strategy, but it seems unlikely he ll put the audit the fed bill up for a vote. a vote on confirming janet yellen as the next head of the fed could take place as early as tomorrow, but it could also happen next week, bumping right up against the eggnog and mistletoe. joining us now is senior fellow of economic studies at the brookings institution, justin wolfers, who s also a professor at the university of michigan. justin, it s amazing you have time to be on the show given all the hats you wear. thank you for joining us, as always. always good to see you, alex. so justin, tell us, if you will, given all your economic expertise, whether or not this audit the fed bill is a good idea or not. yeah, so it s brilliant political rhetoric, but in terms of what it does, it s either completely empty or completely harmful. audit the fed sounds like something we should all be in favor of. in fact, that s why we curr