hiring. and tax breaks to americans, to american companies to bring jobs. jamie: you re not julie, what you re not mentioning is angela, some of those things sound like they might be helpful. yeah, some of those things could be helpful, but the president did have a jobs plan that before the senate and some democrats voted it down. the bottom line, is this, julie, the president has a bully pulpit and doesn t want to talk about his failures and not put forth a jobs plan that democrats and republicans can both support. and you are right, we are going from crisis to crisis. here in washington d.c., but we ve known about the fiscal cliff. we ve known about the debt ceiling, we ve known about all of these things, so the reason why, jamie, the president s putting more emphasis on immigration and putting more emphasis on other things and gun control, not saying that that s not important, he can t stand on his policies of the past. jamie: but he did campaign on those things and i know
this? nearly 40 weeks. and there s a good chance that a person gets a pink slip now would not see another real paycheck until october, 2013. the labor participation rate remains unchanged. 53.6% under 64% for the entire year of 2012 and that s the longest stretch since the keep deep reception of the early 1980 s. angela mcglowan, analyst, and julie, a former political advisor to senator lautenberg of new jersey join me now. great to see you. jamie: julie, i want to ask you, the president has been pretty upfront, and you re a democrat, talking about gun control and immigration, and the debt ceiling, which he may and is getting support from other democrats to act on unilaterally. but not a lot of mention in these couple of weeks we ve just been through about jobs and folks are, i m sure you would agree, worried about their futures. what is his jobs plan specifically? well, absolutely. look, there s a couple of
it s in west africa. french forces launching air strikes overnight on three separate targets in mally, a former french colony, driving rebels out of a key city and destroying a command center. according to the wall street journal, paris is asking support. after an appeal from help from mali s president and involved hundreds of french troops. officials say one french helicopter was downed and the pilot later died of his wounds. we re also getting new reports that france has just raised its terror threat level as a result of the current military action. and it s important to understand, this is one of the most dangerous off-shoots of al-qaeda in the world bar none. they ve carved out their territory in the lawless desert region in the northern part of that country in the past nine months. we will have much more to come on this developing story, so stay tuned. kelly. kelly: well, growing concerns about the direction of u.s. foreign policy in the
salad ally. chuck hagel refused to sign a letter expressing solidarity with israel and what we have seen is that he favors engagement with syria s al-assad, with il when he was alive and also, with all of the dictators who seek to harm u.s. interests and our allies. he wants further engagement with them. he doesn t think that we should penalize those dictators and that harms u.s. national security interests. kelly: i understand, but if i may if i understand, let me point out something that mr. hagel said himself in a recent interview with the lincoln journal star which of course is a newspaper in his home state of nebraska. mr. hagel wanted to describe his views as quote, unequivocal, total support for israel and said the distortions about my record, he said, have been astounding. how do you respond to that? does that give you some
american people in coming months, what the footprint will look like in afghanistan in 2014. he s concentrating on bringing home most american troops and this spring, shifting those that remain to a training and advising role. here at home, he says america needs to focus on rebuilding our own nation. we have to grow our economy and shrink our deficits. great new jobs to boost family incomes and we have to fix our infrastructure and immigration system. we have to protect our planet from the destructive effects of climate change and protect our children from the horrors of gun violence. as for afghanistan, president obama voiced his support for reconciliation efforts between the afghan government and taliban insurgents. part of that includes a taliban political office in the country of qatar to help facilitate negotiations with afghan leaders. jamie. jamie: thanks so much, molly. we re also following for you another al-qaeda hot spot,