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New jersey, crime rates are plummeting. hes a guy that was democrat and out in force for senator obama when he was running for president, helped him get elected and went and said something very smart. he said dont attack private equity. there are a lot of states that rely on private equity investments for jobs, for investments in his state. he was smart and all of a sudden, this retraction that came on you tube a couple of hours later, did he have that look of uh-oh, what did i do? did i let the...

Theres $134 billion worth of private equity investment in 2011 in the various states. interestingly, some of the states which are swing states were of the largest beneficiaries of the money, north carolina, for example, was third on the list with $10 1/2 billion in private equity investment. florida $7 1/2 billion. colorado $5 billion. ohio $5 billion. these are five swing states that benefit dramatically from private equity investment and jobs created from private equity investment. i think thi...

And found the grade level of the speeches declined from an 11th grade level to a 10th grade level. constitut the study found the republican congressman became the most advanced speeches. simplest speeches were given by the republican congressman rob woodall. those your headlines. how do they know that? how do they know that? >> not in congress anymore. >> from florida, the one term congressman. >> die quickly. lets talk about president obama yesterday, sitting there with his world in his audienc...

Discussion on "meet the press." theres no way he was taken out of context. i watched the whole entire thing. he wasnt cut off. he wasnt interrupted. he got his full statement out. sarah palin on with sean hannity. shes disappointed he walked it back did the mayor of newark later on in the day. >> dog gone it. it was ashamed to see cory kind of back down from what his answer was which was so candid, sean he was the antithesis of the politician because he did this before he spewed his answer. he u...

Opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then you -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. >> i thought this was interesting, eric because he really was changing now the discussion he had in the past, that private equity was bad. because people came back and criticized him for that and said youre taking money from private equity firms. how can you have it both ways? now, it seems that theyve changed the rhetoric t...

It started the strategy. and i think so far, president obama has to be -- and david axelrod had to be somewhat floored on how badly the attacks on bain capital are going. certainly not as planned. >> are you talking about the fact that three prominent democrats thus far have come out publicly to say that they do not agree with president obamas strategy? im thinking of harold ford, im thinking of cory booker on "meet the press" on sunday and also steve ratner who was the car czar. those three hav...

Little bit of extra time. >> you sound like somebody else that i heard yesterday. >> which was? >> the president trying to do damage control and figure out how to answer to a cory booker had said the day before about private equity. well get to that in a moment. first, eric bolling sitting in today. >> good morning. >> good morning. this is great news. they took a nasa contract and they went into space and so far, so good. theyre going to be heading up into the space station shortly and its priv...

About. your job is not simply to maximize profits. the job is to give everyone a fair shot. im sorry, i think i just paraphrased this. >> saying im a business guy and i know how to fix it and this is his business. and when youre president as opposed to the head of the private equity firm, then you -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. >> pretty interesting that president obama assesses the situation like that. he ba...

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Legitimate point of attack for the obama administration. i cant believe this. i watched "meet the press" and saw the entire panel discussion and saw the cory booker segment when he called out instinctively his problem with ridiculing bain capital and now he is backpeddling and saying hes been taken out of context? >> he took it further than that last night. he said the g.o.p. is responsible for doing just that. i have to admit last night, i cheated. i watched some of the other competition. guess...