to tell you about. terror arrests. the second major bust in just two days. new concerns and new questions this morning. are the olympics being targeted? plus this. it s really funny that pepco is actually trying to save face now. about five to six trucks came with anywhere from six to eight different people. the whole process took 38 minutes. power problem solved. a family in maryland desperate for help finally becomes a priority for the power company. this morning, their lights are on and the danger is gone. and the newsroom begins right now. good morning, everyone. i m don lemon. carol is off today. we ll begin this hour with a new measure of the economy and new ammunition thrown into the presidential race. just minutes ago, we learned unemployment is still bogged down at a dismal 8.2%. 80,000 jobs were created. that s less than expected. it s one of the last monthly reports we should tell you before the november election. and this morning, both the obama and romney
all right, show time i was going to say, it s going to be a hip-hop morning here. get it started. let s get it started. welcome, everybody. as i mentioned we re coming to you from the diner. every morning we tell you what we re eating. so i m going to tell you what we re eating, i got to read this one. specialty of the house. this is called the kroek and dagger, two eggs over easy with bacon or ham, sandwiched between french loaf smothered in sauce, cheese, served with home fries or grits. coming in at 27 can i hold it up for you? 27,000 calories right here. and i m going to put that in front of our guest panelist today who is joining us is congressman aaron shock. he s the republican from the state of illinois who i saw your picture on the front of men s health. i m not eating a whole lot of those. that s not how you get abs like the congressman has. i should mention he is joining our panel and women have all been on twitter to have you here today. appreciate you
people to work. it just doesn t apply to certain kinds of businesses located in the zone. all businesses would qualify for those kinds of extra exemptions. and there s the magic word, exemption. herman cain is now writing exemptions and complications into the 9-9-9 very simple plan. businesses would pay different tax rates depending on where they located. businesses would be allowed different deductions depending on where they located. that has been written into the tax code for years, called at various times enterprise stozon or empowerment zones. what herman cain is discovering is taxation is complicated for a very simple reason. making the tax code fair in an extremely complex advanced economy is an extremely complex exercise. of course, there should be different tax rates for poor
giving the average middle class person a 15% cut. we are talking at people at the very upper income spectrum. the president would like to lower rates for most people america and make the tax code fair. but, absence tax reform the president believes the right way is ask the wealth think pay their fair share. he s again to continue push to cut taxes for the middle class so they can weather this economic turn better. also, allows them to help the economy by being age to consume more. chris: mr. plouffe, what you are talking is 200 billion dollar in tax cuts that end in the next 15 months. you re talking about two trillion in tax increases that will go on for the next decade. between his jobs plan and i want to break in down because it is important, between his jobs plan and cutting the
you re going to vote for big government which this country did, and kind of do a 180 and you re going to have to implement the tax code and the programs and that you know, you need more agents to implement health care. no, no. let s get ben in on this, come on, ben. i can t remember the last year i was not audited. so, i don t like being audited. literally. now i know what i ve got, thank you. liteserly, i can t remember the last time i was audited, but that being said, i think adam nailed it, that we have laws that have to be enforced and they need to raise revenue. if someone is making calculations and raises significantly more the cost of i m not quite sure what my colleagues mean by making the tax code fair, making lower income and middle income people can t get by anyway or being gouged or ripped off by bank credit cards and have to pay more taxes. to be perfectly fair. no, ben, come on, and one in two people walking down the street every day, doesn t pay