forum all week. i had a chance to sit down with the former president bill clinton for an extensive interview. part of it will air this hour. part in the next hour. i want you to stand by. only a few blocks away at the united nations, president obama s on a major diplomatic mission of his on and a number of critical issues are on the table. let s bring in jessica yellin. she s with me here at the clinton global initiative. a huge day today. maybe even a more important day for the president tomorrow. that s right. but first today, it was a major day of diplomacy for the president. today, he met with the new leaders of a post gadhafi libya. emphasized that the u.s. will be reopening its em bah sbassy in this week. the president also sat down with afghan president hamid karzai. the first time the two lead rs have met face to face since the administration announced it would start drawing down troops. also, the president has had a meeting with turkey s prime minister. now, histor
strategy here has to be specific. yes, you have to reform entitlements, but you to reform the entitlements and invest and grow, and the quickest way to take down the invest is stop investing in growth. but in michigan, governor granholm supported the highest tax increases in the history of michigan and unemployment went from 6.8% to 15.3%. when i took over michigan and let s not get into an argument in michigan. well, it is a reality, and at the same time you had the governor of texas who actually supported tax decreases and more broadening of the base, and actually we had the fastest growth in texas and than any other other states. this is a great point, because michigan s economy is emblematic of what is going on in the nation. a global shift of manufacturing jobs and michigan had seven times more automotive manufacturing than other states in the country and we saw the jobs leave because of the global shift, so that the question for america is what can our nation do to make s
that s a reality. at the same time, you had the governor of texas, who actually supported tax decreases and more broadening of the base, and actually, we had the fastest growth than any other state. this is a great point, because michigan s economy is emblematic of what s going on in the nation, a global shift in manufacturing jobs. michigan had seven times more automotive manufacturing than other states in the country, and we saw those jobs leave because of this global shift. so, the question for america is what can our nation do to make sure we have advanced manufacturing jobs in our country? yes, michigan had a huge concentration of them, you know, we had the biggest bankruptcies in the world inside of michigan. so, clearly, our unemployment rate was attached to that. but for the nation, we have to decide how are we going to be competitive globally? let me ask jim cramer about the president s leadership in all of this. to show you how toxic this atmosphere is, peggy noonan wro
when i took over michigan an argument about michigan. michigan had that s a reality. at the same time, you had the governor of texas, who actually supported tax decreases and more broadening of the base, and actually, we had the fastest growth than any other state. this is a great point, because michigan s economy is emblematic of what s going on in the nation, a global shift in manufacturing jobs. michigan had seven times more automotive manufacturing than other states in the country, and we saw those jobs leave because of this global shift. so, the question for america is what can our nation do to make sure we have advanced manufacturing jobs in our country? yes, michigan had a huge concentration of them, you know, we had the biggest bankruptcies in the world inside of michigan. so, clearly, our unemployment rate was attached to that. but for the nation, we have to decide how are we going to be competitive globally? let me ask jim cramer about the president s leadership i
about letting part of the bush tax cuts expire after 2012. that s where the revenue is going to come. no tax increase in 2011 or 2012. it was raising taxes on the richest. that is the most popular proposal in terms of politics of this. 75% of the people in the country want to see the bush tax decreases expire. the recession will be well and truly over. yeah. all right. i have a question to ponder during the commercial break. please. how does this get done when john boehner has 80 or 90 members of the caucus that won t agree on anything. the center. coming up, we are going to