ceo of general electric, jack welch, who joins us right now. jack, you made a lot of news today. here is the tweet you put out this morning. unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can t debate so change numbers. and i m just wondering, i understand the way it works is the president gets a heads-up on the unemployment number 4:00 the day before and has to keep it to himself. you re saying in your tweet this morning that the news went the other way, that the people working for the president somehow got the bls, the bureau of labor statistics, and played with the numbers so it would come down below 8% today. how does it work from your perspective? what happened here? well, chris, all i can talk about are some of the numbers. we had 600,000 government jobs added in the last two months. we had 873,000 jobs by a household survey, which is a total estimate from 50,000 phone calls. of those 600,000 were temporary workers. chris, these numbers are all a seri
known the power of the unemployment figure. now we have the number itself. plus, the good news about the last two months, it s clear that the economy created more jobs than previously estimated. there are some people out there who don t like this number, don t like it at all, and leading the band is the legendary ceo of general electric, jack welch, who joins us right now. jack, you made a lot of news today. here is the tweet you put out this morning. unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can t debate so change numbers. and i m just wondering, i understand the way it works is the president gets a heads-up on the unemployment number 4:00 the day before and has to keep it to himself. you re saying in your tweet this morning that the news went the other way, that the people working for the president somehow got the bls, the bureau of labor statistics, and played with the numbers so it would come down below 8% today. how does it work from your perspectiv
0 league with the country s enemy. mitt romney is out there overseeing every word of it. ron reagan and cynthia cutler. i want to start with this, sin thee n cynthia. i have never heard such a coherent, comprehensive effort to describe a guy as not really an american, as being one of the enemy or in league with the enemy at least. your thoughts? the southern strategy at-large. this is all about appealing to racially resentful whites. i have to tell you. i have been very disappointed and surprised by mitt romney s running his campaign this way. i met him back in 2007 when i was still editorial page editor at the atlanta konconstitution he seemed smart, savvy, moderate, reasonable and honorable. competence or strength, it is an argument over loyal. cynthia is right. this is the southern strategy at-large. chris, real substantive political leaders in america, presidents, like fdr in the 30s or ronald reagan in the 80s, tend to remake their parties in their own images around their ow
sympathizing with the attackers in the mideast. he not only exploits the range winlg of the right he is enjoying it. the birthers say obama isn t one of us. romney says obama sympathizes with the muslim killers. today, the state of kansas is deciding whether to let obama s name appear on the ballot. the birthers are still at it. they want more evidence of the president s legitimacy. his birth certificate isn t enough. his new ally, newt gingrich, talks of our food stamp president. one state after another tries to limit minority voting in the cause of making out the president as the other, the foreigner who needs in the words of romney surrogate, john sa into into, to learn how to be an american. the campaign is coherent, comprehensive. to convince the working class white guy obama is not one of us, one of them. a foreigner, a sue purper in league with the country s enemy. mitt romney is out there overseeing every word of it. ron reagan and cynthia cutler. i want to start with
at least five states passed laws limiting early voting. two states, texas and florida placed restrictions on voter groups. they are rewriting the games to prevent democrats from getting to the polls. cindy tucker is an award winning prize writer and julie is the co-director of the project. let me ask you, this is such obvious gamesmanship. when you start saying, if you have voter irregularities somewhere, you fix them, catch them and prosecute. there are no real examples floating around about cheating. none. why do you change the laws. an older person doesn t have a photo id. where would they go to get a government picture on it? in some cases, they have to