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Pipeline coming down from canada thats estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs. thats not a jobs plan. >> bret: thats quite an evolution about talking about the keystone pipeline, about president obama. were back with the panel. charles, your thoughts? >> i like the way the president is -- shows such a disdain for the 50 permanent jobs. what he is leaving out is that his own state department had estimated it would create over 40,000 temporary meaning jobs for a year or two. so here is he dis...

Homes. >> you should know that as comprehensive immigration reform legislation, i hope legislation is unveiled that the center for american progress has a report that shows a good bill will increase our economic growth by $830 billion and add 121,000 jobs a year. thats why its important. its comprehensive and has a fast path decision. >> all thats important. well know whether the winning streak for new york teams is going to be real or a moment. knicks, rangers, nets, all blazing right now. can ...

>> not only that, we dug up a clip of him making the case for stimulus under bush in terms that were directly kind of counter cyclical cansian terms. this is important, it came from michael grumwald. he voted for a $700 billion stimulus. so when you say the -- when you attack the recovery act as he now does and as republicans do as a preposterous notion, as a ridiculous out of left field idea that you would borrow money from china, the difference between the republicans and the democrats on this...

Him in the domestic policy discussion was the letters to his office. >> yeah. >> on the stimulus front. >> brutal. >> he blamed it on his staff. >> thats going it be replayed on a lot of clips tomorrow. that was a tough, clean staff. >> he blamed it on his staff. tonight he said we did it because constituents made us. >> they will not -- the domestic policy and the tax end of it -- they will not say what loopholes. they wont do it. >> no. >> were going to close these loopholes. >> martha raddatz...

>> he blamed it on his staff. >> thats going it be replayed on a lot of clips tomorrow. that was a tough, clean staff. >> he blamed it on his staff. tonight he said we did it because constituents made us. >> they will not -- the domestic policy and the tax end of it -- they will not say what loopholes. they wont do it. >> no. >> were going to close these loopholes. >> martha raddatz pushed hard on that, the mortgage deduction in particular. >> the recovery act, its important to remember, paul ry...

Deficits. he didnt really inherit it. he helped create it. 2009 was the first year in office and especially something he doesnt seem to want to remember, stimulus $8000 billion. >> paul: as a share of the economy it was 3.2%. it did balloon to 10.1% in 2009. i would give president bush some credit for that because in fact the recession had started. the recession for his first six months of his term. what you are saying there is a thing called $830 billion spending. >> february 2009 that presiden...

Deficits. he didnt really inherit it. he helped create it. 2009 was the first year in office and especially something he doesnt seem to want to remember, stimulus $8000 billion. >> paul: as a share of the economy it was 3.2%. it did balloon to 10.1% in 2009. i would give president bush some credit for that because in fact the recession had started. the recession for his first six months of his term. what you are saying there is a thing called $830 billion spending. >> february 2009 that presiden...

It means that only about 63.5% of the american people are working. and thats the lowest in 32 years. now, thats a number, but what it means is, to our economy, we want a larger-- we and the as many people working as we possibly can. if people, as many people working as possible, that means theres nor money that theyre spending at the stores or purchases saving, able to provide for improvements to their homes and able to send to college. this is the lowest in 32 years. if the labor participation ...

To the war in iraq, youre right. compared to the war in iraq, they are a drop in the bucket. but that is where that deficit emerged. it was off-the-books war spending, the bush tax cuts. >> its bad spending. i mean, i even sat down and did the math. we spent $830 billion on the first bailout. if we had given that money to the 15 million people who needed jobs -- >> the bailout occurred -- >> -- a $15,000 check for of single person. >> unfortunately weve got to go, but ive got to tell you, the ba...

he was dubbed osama bin ladens right-hand man in europe and had been in jail since 2005. the european court on human rights stopped britain from deporting him to his native jordan because of concerns he would be tortured. a british judge says unless the government manages to deport him in the next three months, the bail conditions may be lifted. whitney houstons body has been flown to new jersey on a private jet for a funeral service later this week. a gold hearst believed to be carr...