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president returned to the country and is looking for the united states help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don t know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. fran townsend, hope you ll still around. many more questions. live to istanbul to check in with mohammed jamjoom who has information about exactly where al awlaki was killed. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. we re told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky ....
That stimulus thing actually put us in debt. now, take a look at this. it s not good. before the stimulus, 36% of the jet was the gdp of the gdp was the debt and afterwards, 62% so not quite double but near. almost double it because of the stimulus spending and this was huge news. this is a bombshell yesterday when this came out and obviously, this calls into question whether or not we should do anymore stimulus spending. absolutely not, right? there s no sentiment at all on either side of the aisle for stimulus spending at this juncture. as you ll recall even prior to the stimulus, the democrats felt that some economists, i don t know that they were all necessarily democrats thought it didn t go far enough. some democrats now still feel that the best way to boost the economy and to help the infrastructure is to continue with spending projects on, for ....
Now, he has problems. governor huckabee: big problems. if he keeps doing what he is doing the numbers willing in the get better and they could continue to get worse. this was a gut punch to the president. he can go to toledo and act like everything is fine and talk about jobs, but government motors has been a failure. the stimulus thing has been a failure. and you have some democrats that think we ought to spend more. that is insane. the last thing we need is to spend more money we don t have, borrow more money we can t afford to pay back. neil: romney asks you to be a running running mate you would say what? guest: he has not asked but if you asked . neil: and he is still there with his hit show but it is so damned popular i don t like ....
Plan that is is going to waste more tax dollars how so? this administration thinks spending two million dollars of taxpayer money to get one new job is a good tkhaoefplt is an obvious political employ with the elect coming up. you know it is not going to be open for open bidding it will be closed ing to the unions of choice. david: emac? this is nothing new. if we don t do it now those people who get sick around those sites the residents around those areas will have to cover health costs. i say do it now. i say clean it up. david: steve, is this a serious program or a sneaky stimulus thing? no, it is a stimulus thing. let private companies do it on their own dime that s fine. is this gonna help high-tech ....
Think their frustration with both the substance of what s going on, frustration that no one appreciates what they ve done, what they saved us from, if we hear one more word about this ditch that s all they talk about. driven in the ditch. fill the ditch up with the stimulus thing. i understand the human level, you have to understand, they re sitting there going, rove is back, he s putting all this money in, we got to get out there and do something and they go and do this. if they believe does barack obama believe he s accomplished great things these first two years? yes. historic things. everybody i talked to said he believes he s done great things. yeah. if i believe id d i did great things for two years, i wouldn t read polls to see whether americans got it or not. i wouldn t bring up ditches and ....