to improve the after-tax wage of people all around the country, but you know, we re in a tough spot. we re making that we re making progress doesn t make it any easier. we want to get wages up and we want to get people back to work. jenna: how concerned are you about the price pressure that the american family might be feeling and how that might affect future job growth? well, it s something that we re clearly monitoring. energy and food prices have been up, other prices remain inflation remains very modest, so the overall consumer price index is only up in the 1 percent to 2 percent range. on fuel costs and gas costs, i mean, the critical thing is that we address the energy policy so every year we don t get in this same circumstance. jenna: not to take anything away from the efforts at trying to change the energy policy but we do know that the tile line on that could be longer rather than
the bottom of the hour. president obama called congressman stupak this week urging him not to retire. you may know this, congressman stupak is the prolife democrat who switched his vote at the 11th hour after getting abortion agreement from president obama. he brought along a whole block of votes and it pushed health care reform over the finish line. steve, when did stupak make this decision? we don t know everything about the tile line on this. we do know there s a regular deliberation process, we spoke yesterday with his wife, laurie stupak who said bi-annually they take a look at whether or not this is something they wish to do, to go through the rigors of a exaib in the house and the answers have been yes and yes and he s won handily here. we do know yesterday the folks at northern michigan university where the news conference will take place in 30 minutes were informed that there may be need for a pod ul and a microphone and a possible news conference, so it could be as early as
now we re going now drug cartel members are infiltrating our border agency, working undercover alongside u.s. agents. we ll talk with a former customs official who witnessed it firsthand. jane: jon, we ve been waiting for house speaker nancy pelosi to address the media in the weekly news conference, see if she says anything about health care and the tile line for it. let s take a listen. the cbo did come out with a report yesterday on the senate bill. mind you, the senate bill passed christmas eve, but it and there was a cbo score going into the vote, but this addressed as amended, and what was positive about it is it showed over $100 billion in savings for the first ten years of the bill, and a trillion dollars over the second ten years. that is exactly what we or better, what we hope to do with the reconciliation bill, to sustain those numbers. so the fact that we ve