going as democrats. we ve heard from some economists that the economy is getting better which i think probably bolsters the president s arguing positions on a lot of things. health care salvageable to you? no, i really don t think so. i think obama care is still unworkable, unpopular, and unfundable. what this is is a program that has accelerated our path to a single-payer system even though the president denies this. harry reid s comment, i mean, that was a classic case of what are you going to believe, your lying eyes or me? your lying neighbors and their narratives about how hard it is to work into the program, how skyrocketing their health care kobss is under this new program. this is a case where repeal is the only logical way of avoiding a catastrophe. susan, does the president in this argument, and he s not going to repeal he s not
kind of just let 2 million families it should be extended in my view. the 7% unemployment rate is about where the unemployment rate is in the typical recession. it s still very difficult. if you consider the people who were under employed and given the low wage growth, i think the economy is much too weak at this point. the way the current emergency iu program is structured it does phase out as unemployment rates come in, then people get less emergency ui. it happens state by state. the way it s structured phases out. there s still unemployment benefits. this is just extended unemployment benefits we re talking about. do you argue, mark? no, i don t. i think the lengthy unemployment benefits have created a real problem and we ve created this class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that is very, very difficult to reconnect to society. i think the highest priority right now is to develop programs for the long term unemployed who are having a really hard time even
us. then this is a remarkable leader. someone worth studying. someone it was an honor to have met. blowback. newt gingrich on the hostility prochted by his praise of nelson mandela, and our political panel looks at the republican charm offensive, bill s hillary crusade, and what harry reid said. this is state of the union. all the world is a stage and there are lots of actors these days. president obama acknowledge the u.s. would accept a peaceful nuclear energy program in iran. 85-year-old merrill newman is back on u.s. soil and with family after being detained. north korean authorities seized newman off a departing plane more than a month ago. joining me now, congressman michael mccall, chairman of the house homeland security and congressman adam schiff, a
this does not work. it will accelerate the debt. it will, in fact, contribute to slow economic growth and slow economic recovery. it will not work. only thing that was missing in that bill clinton clip was him looking at the camera and saying, i did not embrace, i did not embrace single-payer health care in the 1990s, and he did. so mo is right, there s no way he can run away from this. 2014, let me bring you back two years. in 2014 what happens to democratic candidates? will the bulk of them run on obama care? i think when you talk to 2014 candidates now, they are extremely nervous about this because mo may be right in the passage of time this turns out to be a very successful program that transforms the american medical system. hard to envision it having sorted out its many problems by next november. democrats are very concerned
the world, we want you to pay attention to us and our nuclear program or it may be confined to something mr. newman said. he was over there for closure for his north korean war activities. anyway, we re glad he s home. and you re right, the attention has been elsewhere, mr. chairman. it has been on iran, and i want to play you something that the president said yesterday. we can envision is comprehensive agreement that involves extraordinary constraints and verification mechanisms and intrusive inspections but thatiran to hav program. so iran with a peaceful nuclear program means it will have some enriched uranium at a much lower level than the 20% that is needed to build a nuclear weapon. is that okay? we ve been working on these sanctions for a decade, since i have been in tcongress, and