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>> 57. >> wait a minute. is it up to that already? >> i think it was two week ago, the president when he was in hawaii said he was in asia which is also kind of a headline. >> listen, weve asked you two questions in 40 minutes. sorry theres so much homework today. get going. stop complaining. that speech was president obamas first major economic speech since the beginning of the occupy wall street movement. and he argues that prosperity for all is more important than freedom? and he said that, w...

Free choices. >> market will adjust. >> i know a guy with a british accent maybe shouldnt be saying this. >> so the president is saying -- no. or the other 57 states. he said look, rugged individualism doesnt work. has he taken a look recently at collectivist europe, all government all the time and flat broke? then he says that tax cuts dont work. well, say that to former president reagan who cut taxes and eninsured prosperity for the generation and then president bush who cut taxes and gave his...

Ready for this? his theory, we have to admit the rugged individualism and skepticism o and that is american dna but the problem is it doesnt work. is this not the country with the highest standard of living and develops life-saving drugs? what do you mean our system doesnt work? of course it works. >> bob: you might want to get your facts straight. we are not the country with highest standard of living. finland is. i dont want to go there because the women are ugly and its dark 22 hours a day. >...

Eventually trickle down to everybody else. heres the problem, it doesnt work. it has never worked. but heres the problem. it doesnt work. it has never worked. >> that speech in kansas. joining us now from the white house press secretary jay carney. good to have you on the show. >> mika, great to be here, thanks. >> many would say the president connected with issues that really are important to people in this country in that speech. can he argue he deserves four more years in office and his polic...

That in the peak. a little different but i actually put my financial disclosure form in the book. >> you are going to endorse very soon? >> sometime after the debate. debate is on the 27th and after the debate im going to endorse somebody and i would like to see that somebody be great and win. >> are you leaning toward one person? >> you know, i dont want to even say that now. probably and possibly the answer is yes, but i dont sort of want to say. >> that you can change your mind. >> i can chan...

President if the super-committee failed, he said, yes it would. i wonder how committed some people were on the other side of the aisle to get a solution. when the president wants to run against a do-nothing congress, anything that doesnt work, anything that is blocked about happening in congress is something that may play to the presidents benefit, at least according to the senator schumer. bill: well see what the appetite tight is. >> i want to find solutions there are plenty of opportunities t...

Up next the latest from newt gingrich. poor kids have no work habits because no one around them works, or so he said. theres a dog whistle for the right. youre watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nations networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grummans security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting peoples lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. thats the value o...

I think it gets to two issues about romney. about gingrich, excuse me. the dog whistle aspect is pretty simple. you know, part of the sort of core of the conservative message these days is telling a lot of suburbanites, is telling people who perceive themselves as taxpayers who are under siege that their taxes are so high because the government is taking their money and wasting it on poor, lazy, undeserving people. so i think the message was sort of designed to reach those people and say, hey, i...

Doesnt work, he can always give a go michele bachmann style. remember how she confronted the campaign blunders a couple of weeks ago? >> i havent had a gaffe or something that ive done that has caused me to fall in the polls. >> there it is. just deny everything, although i think the poll numbers speak for themselves. neither strategy seems to be working. up next, vacation veto. today, president obama teamed with former president bill clinton to promote job creation through energy-efficient bu...

Number of people out looking for work and an increasing number of baby boomers looking for work brought the unemployment number down to 8.6%. people in the western part of the country are cleaning up after violent santa ana winds from southern california to washington state. the pentagon says pakistan is refusing to participate in the investigation into last weeks air strike along the afghan border that killed 24 pakistani soldiers. the u.n. has extended the stay in libya. on wall street...