today, who or what will move the u.s. economy out of its stall? we begin with jim demint and jim hoffa. and as we near the anniversary of 9/11, mike rogers and senate homeland security chairman joe lieberman and all things political with peter baker of the new york times and mike duffy of time magazine. i m candy crawley, and this is state of the union. first, president obama is going to unveil his new jobs plan on thursday, and it s a critical speech with the disappointing jobs numbers we saw come out a few days ago, and we see who could benefit right away. he is not always a republican establishment favorite but holds sway in the tea party and the tea party may hold sway in the primaries. his event will be well attend and closely watched. he is joining me from clemson, south carolina. thank you so much for taking time out. i want to start off talking about jobs. and what is in the jobs plan and what cannot be in it? i spent the month of august visiting businesses, m
this poor kid is adopted from russia. it makes us look real bad over here. her lawyers did a great job for her. really. you can catch our legal guys every saturday at noon eastern right here in the cnn newsroom. i had, everybody, top of the hour, 5:00 p.m. on the east coast, i m alina cho. thanks for joining us. three developing stories we re watching this hour, the ongoing onslaught from tropical storm lee. parts of the gulf coast waist high in water. we ll take you there live. and gadhafi s son speaks out from his hiding place revealing new information about cease-fire talks. it s an exclusive. we ll have to report, just secs away. nearly ten years after 9/11, new compelling video from that tragic day comes to light. that is straight ahead. this labor day weekend is a washout for millions of americans along the gulf coast. tropical storm lee is still drenching parts of the louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida coast this hour. but it s starting to make a move
necessary to have a wpa-type program and hire people. we cannot possibly go on with 15 to 20 million americans sitting on their hands and not doing anything and they are not being job for them. you have a problem with any of that, john? well, first of all, we need some humility after the first stimulus package didn t deliver as advertised. we were told it would keep unemployment under 8% and clearly did not do that. so moving forward talk to small business who employees 80% of the american people. and they surveyed the members and said what are the major concerns, and first of all, declining sales, duh, but the second is uncertainty for economic policy. they can t plan for the future and don t know the climate change bill, and the full implication of the taxes dumped on them and the taxes expiring on december 31st.