good morning, everyone. tgif, it s october 7th. thanks so much for your sharing your time with us today. passing the blame, president obama says his jobs bill isn t working because the republicans won t let it work. but it turns out some democrats don t like it much either. but what about regular old americans? well, we re going to report and then you can decide. meanwhile, a new warning from the fed. the slight recovery we re feeling apparently is on the verge of collapse. new jobless numbers are expected 30 minutes from right now. republican presidential candidate, that guy, mitt romney here live to react. wow. on this date 15 years ago, fox news hit the air waves for the very first time. we re celebrating our anniversary with a special appearance by none other than sh shepard smith and we have a president for him. really? yeah, fox & friends starts right now.
taxes ever in the middle of a recession or in a downturn in an economy. so he spent the first time, first part of this news conference saying how the country has stalled, the economy has stalled, and it risks going backwards into a double dip recession, essentially, if this jobs bill isn t passed. and then endorsed the method to pay for it which is the 5.6% surtax on millionaires. jon: bret baier, the anchor of special report. we ll see you tonight, 6 p.m. eastern. i m sure the news conference gives you plenty of fodder to talk about with the panel. thanks. jenna: fox news alert out in california where police have shot and killed the gunman suspect inside those shootings in sunnyvail that we were reporting on yesterday. we re going to have the latest from california right after a quick break. being your average brs. we know how to tighten our purse strings.
led at least one national republican primary poll this year. how typical is it to see, well, such a game of musical chairs, if you will? it s unusual to have that many. it is actually usual as long as an incumbent isn t in the race, to have multiple people lead polls at some point. it just makes sense. people don t know all these candidates. they re getting to know them. they like some aspects of candidates x and they other aspects of candidate y. i have loads of correspondence write me take this piece of herman cain and this piece of rick perry and this piece of mitt romney together and have a perfect candidate. you will have to wait for genetics to advance that further. jenna: we ll have to wait for reality. we continue to gaze in the crystal ball you give is every week, larry. always nice to have you. thanks a lot, jenna, there is a brand new study
of the economy. here is what president obama had to say about the job growth. the jobs plan the jobs bill isn t that your responsibility? i take full responsibility for everything but you are asking two questions. you are asking number one have i been able to get every plan that would work through a republican congress that says it s number one priority was beating me as opposed to helping the american people. there is no doubt i have been disappointed in trying to get more cooperation from those folks. that s something we have to continue to do. the second question you are asking, though, is has what we have done worked? the fact of the matter is what we have done has been effective in improving the situation in every area we are talking about. when i made a decision to save the auto industry that saved a
nearly what we need. the president, as you heard him say yesterday, does not believe there s any excuse or reason that anyone in washington should be sitting on their hands and doing nothing. reporter: so to that point, moving forward, thomas, we will continue to see president obama try to turn up the heat on republicans to pass his jobs bill. we saw that yesterday when he held that news conference and warned that the economy could slip back into another recession if the jobs bill isn t passed. he s really been traveling around the country doing this, trying to turn up the heat, taking on a more combative tone, it s not clear if it s working, though, because republicans have accused the president of playing politics with this issue. kristen welker at the white house, kristen, thanks. jerad bernstein is an msnbc contributor and former chief economist for vice president joe biden. let s get straight to it. there is good news, 137,000