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9-9-9 plan came to the conclusion as most nonpartisan groups have concluded that the rich get a huge boon out of it and poor and middle class people have to pay much more. >> safe to say you dont think either plan will work, secretary, robert reich. always nice to see you, sir. battles over tax policies dont make for great sound bites but they can find a receptive audience online. that audience is growing. about two-thirds of adults use social networks. the question is now, who can win that ba...

State that is not overwhelmingly democratic. when you have think back to 08, republicans running away from bush-mccain, it didnt help them. and dont forget the congress raidings are lower than the presidents. megyn: there is one democratic strategist saying president obama may be becoming the walter mondale of 1984. the on official who risked being seen with him was the agriculture commissioner. >> a brave agriculture commissioner, im sure. juan is right. president obama is in the low or mid-40s...

And all different cities around the country have struggled. one other kick bit of news on friday unemployment came out for the city of vegas and it was little bit better. it went from 14.3% to 13.6%. but obviously that is still far worse than the national average, and so people in this community are basically saying its only less bad right now. that is really troublesome for the president heading into 2012. jon: as he tries to win re-election a lot of observers saying he needs nevadas election t...

Economic problems in the country. 78% blame wall street. 87% blame the federal government. one of the big questions that youve posed about president obama is can he run a conventionally liberal campaign, a populous campaign, tax the rich more, and prevail? >> no. you know, the most important public statistic in our lifetime is they ask people, do you trust government to do the right thing most of the time? through the 50s, 60s, 70s, it was like 80% trusted government. then that drops, vietnam, w...

Whether 9-9-9 has holes in it, 9-9-9 brought people to, we want simplification. we want change. we dont want tweaking around the edges. and i think he did that. >> a lot can be learned from what mr. welch is saying and what cain has done. first of all, i thought he did an excellent job, cain did, last week. the president can learn something and romney can, as well. whomever the nominee will be. simple, big and bold. president obama was like that in 08 and people are wanting to see a result betwe...

9-9-9 brought people to, we want simplification. we want change. we dont want tweaking around the edges. and i think he did that. >> a lot can be learned from what mr. welch is saying and what cain has done. first of all, i thought he did an excellent job, cain did, last week. the president can learn something and romney can, as well. whomever the nominee will be. simple, big and bold. president obama was like that in 08 and people are wanting to see a result between now and 12. two, theres so m...

Country. 78% blame wall street. 87% blame the federal government. one of the big questions that youve posed about president obama is can he run a conventionally liberal campaign, a populous campaign, tax the rich more, and prevail? >> no. you know, the most important public statistic in our lifetime is they ask people, do you trust government to do the right thing most of the time? through the 50s, 60s, 70s, it was like 80% trusted government. then that drops, vietnam, watergate, gets down to li...

Than -- >> but isnt tims point, which is the decision making is being made to preserve jpmorgan, is being made to preserve deutsche bank, is being made to preserve sock jen, as opposed to saying, were going to need to restructure this financial system. >> that was done here in 08. that was done in ireland. remember, ireland, their domestic banks got all this debt that they couldnt pay backse, d the irish taxpayers said, well take that and make all those private debts public debts. and the irish ...

Good to have you back, dan. >> good to be here. >> weve talked to several folks about how this is a situation where maybe if you actually did a marshall plan, some sort of cohesive plan, that this doesnt have to be a bloodbath like lehman brothers. that this could be more orderly. >> well, its kind of useful to compare what we did here in 08 and 09. theres a lot of criticism of how things went down. basically, the federal reserve came in and said, we will guarantee everything in sight, stop runn...

homeowners across the country by relaxing some of the tough rules that have made it very difficult for homeowners to refinance, allowing them to not have to go through a credit check or get an appraisal again. again, the big key that is seen as holding back the economic recovery is the pressure on the real estate market and the white house, the president hoping that this will provide some relief. >> so we will hear from the president in a bit talking about refinancing. i know thats not...