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a witness claims to have seen the actual shooting. lets go "outfront." well, good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. out front tonight superfailed take two. the house of representatives passes paul ryans 2013 budget plan. >> i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. >> the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means its dead on arrival in the senate. democrats ...

passes paul ryans 2013 budget plan. >> i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. >> the problem is we already now how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means its dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the presidents budget, its a no-go too. its a campaign document that raises taxes and doesnt rein in spending. heres the bottom line. america hasnt...

president mahmoud ahmadinejad is in pakistan for a regional summit. he joins pakistani prime minister gilani who is facing a contempt of court charge before his countrys supreme court. hamid karzai is there as well, saying his government is holding talks with the taliban, a claim the taliban denies. police in thailand are seeking an arrest warrant for a fifth iranian suspect in connection with a bomb incident in the thai capital on tuesday. theyre looking to detain javad, a 52-year-o...

Economy. transportation and warehousing increased by 50,000 jobs. retailers hired 28,000. manufacturing increased 23,000. and the construction sector added workers for the first time in december since 2006. in total, the u.s. economy added more than 1 1/2 million jobs last year. still, the economy needs to add even more jobs than this, over years, to fully recover from such a deep recession and one analyst says that scenario is far from guaranteed. >> im hopeful that well continue to get good so...

Jobs, a lower rate, and additions across the economy. transportation and warehousing increased by 50,000 jobs. retailers hired 28,000. manufacturing increased 23,000. and the construction sector added workers for the first time in december since 2006. in total, the u.s. economy added more than 1 1/2 million jobs last year. still, the economy needs to add even more jobs than this, over years, to fully recover from such a deep recession and one analyst says that scenario is far from guaranteed. >>...

The wealthiest people in america one penny if thats what it takes to make sure that working families get a payroll tax cut. it is a clear defining moment, a contrast between the parties that the president has made clear. >> reporter: thats been kind of a classic democratic argument essentially, asking the rich to do a little bit more to give everybody some tax relief. bottom line the republicans say that they are going to pay for it without that millionaire surtax. they believe the keystone xl p...

indicators, monitor them. theres an overwhelming message when we look at those indicators that is consistent only with the new recession starting here. if you think back to 2008, when we made that call, then it was prior to the lehman crisis economists were looking backwards at gdp. and all they saw was positive gdp. >> once we saw the lehman crisis everybody was on board with the fact there was a recession. before that there was a question. >> correct. when you see gdp positive or job...

this is based on the forward looking indicators of the business cycle. thats all we do is watch those indicators, monitor them. theres an overwhelming message when we look at those indicators that is consistent only with the new recession starting here. when you think back to 2008, while we made that call, then it was prior to the lehman crisis economists were looking backwards at gdp. >> once we saw the lehman crisis everybody was on board with the fact there was a recession. before t...

How our financial system works. >> here the president wants to say, look, im on the side of the mid e8 class here. i want more fairness in our country. the republicans want to take you backward. >> joining me now to talk about how the jobs report is playing out in washington, nbcs kristen walker at the white house this afternoon. kristen, positive spin for the report seems to be it could have been worse. hows the white house playing this one? >> reporter: thats absolutely right, craig. hi there....

And in particular the latino company will be affected. $50 million for transportation projects and $15 billion for construction will help a lot of latinos who are out of work in the construction sector and then secondly, the reduction in payroll tax will provide about $1,500 per family directly and reduction of 50% of the payroll tax for small businesses will help about 250,000 latino small businesses. this is very, very helpful to latino community generally. >> and to those on the other side wh...