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Understand what im talking about, a jobs program that gets passed. because republicans have to turn and vote for it because they have to, youve waged a progressive campaign. waiting for the weather to change politically, which seems to be what this president is doing. look at the latest "new york times" cbs poll too. 62% of americans say the country should now give higher priority to job creation as opposed to 29% who say we should be cutting spending. so at least in the current reality, they kn...

>> this is the way i talk about it. john, just to help you understand what im talking about, a jobs program that gets passed. because republicans have to turn and vote for it because they have to, youve waged a progressive campaign. waiting for the weather to change politically, which seems to be what this president is doing. look at the latest "new york times" cbs poll too. 62% of americans say the country should now give higher priority to job creation as opposed to 29% who say we should be cu...

K, were not there yet butoi re. that would be disastrous. >> i want to ask about that. a growing number of economists and commentators have been saying there is a risk of a double dip because of whats happening in europe, the way the markets reacted to it and the general psychology, the feeling of gridlock and despair, 82% in the latest new york times cbs poll expressing strong disapproval of congress. what is your belief? is this jobs number enough to avoid a double dip? >> i think we will avoi...

Night where he said he inherited much of the current debt problem, so is the white house caught flat footed by this crisis and underreacting to how the american people want to see the president respond? >> well, thomas, the white house would argue no they are trying to make the case that the president is remaining calm and restorem so optimism given the difficult economic times. we have heard him talk for some time that we are in the process of recovering, and we have made some gains since 2008 ...

They showed it today. and frankly the s&p ratings agency knows that, too. the agency that downgraded the u.s. credit rating friday night sent over to the obama administration their press release explaining the downgrade they were about to do. this is the draft. we have the draft. this is the draft press release. this is not the final version, this is the early version that was obtained by politico,.com, we have a link to it on our website. the spoiler alert here if you read this is that the math...

Really for the whole nation our hearts are breaking. thank you very much. and now to the news that our nation coughed up its prize reputation athe world. standard and poors downgraded us from triple a to double a plus. s&p warned it was coming when members was congress fought over how to deal with our nations debt. less than a deal after reaching a deal we get downgraded. neil vavuto was told it was not only the debt problem but how washington hantedled. >> there was a number of factors. one w...

Health care costs and proponents say know this is how it has to go filing briefs with the court in support of or against it. this is a large fight over a central part of the health care bill. at the end of the day it will probably be appealed to the supreme court. >> you called it the health care bill and it is, i guess, the health care law although most of it has not taken effect yet. is the fact that there is so much arguing about this thing going on, still, so many court rulings, one day up, ...

Economy forward. why? senator rubio thinks he knows. >> he proposed a budget that was so ludacris not even the democrats in the senate would vote for it budget that increased the debt, not solved it there was a strategy to leave this to the last possible moment so there would be a take it or leave it scenario like what some are painting right now. >> bill: with economic chaos facing the country, you have to do more than just criticize. you have to put forth a plan. so mr. rubio did. >> i think a...

Like what they see. they think d.c. is playing politics with the nations financial future. you are right, some people were expecting what i would call panic selling when things opened up this monday morning. that probably not going to happen. the dow industrials will open maybe 100 lower. there has almost been panic tbhieg gold. we have a new all-time price. bill: you remember the days west was well below $300. asia is selling off by half a percentage point. thats not a big deal. a lot of that i...