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The jobs picture wasnt any better. this graph from the center for american progress compares job growth under bushs business cycle with job growth under the preceding cycles and gives bush a handicap. doesnt count 08 when the financial crisis and recession began, but even when the handicap, the bush years performed poorly. see that on the right, they are the small bars. note the graph again. it ends before the financial crisis. a financial crisis that is at least partially attributed to the let ...

Opportunities for our current workers and for coming workers. and then finally, what i call restoring economic freedom. that means keep our taxes as low as possible, have regulations modern and up to date, get health care costs down. these things will restore economic freedom. >> so, how is it that different from what george w. bush tried to push through? it is not. it is not different from what george w. bush tried to push through. lower taxes, fewer regulations, more domestic energy production...

well share that with you. in the meantime, good morning, welcome to early start. >> happy friday. we had some crazy weather here in new york overnight. maybe some tornadoes upstate. well have the latest in just a few minutes. plus dr. conrad murray is reaching out to the late king of pops mother now. youll find out why coming up. but first, well talk about politics and mitt romneys rocky start in london. this was a trip intended to charm the brits, to show off romneys statesmanship...

All of a sudden now russia is the biggest foe until this new speech at the vfw in which iran poses the bigger danger. its more difficult to get a sense of where that resolve actually plays out, and i tell you, i wanted to walk out on this speech so badly. and romney denied me the facts, figures, numbers. >> with a graph, its hard to do it. on iran, he said now iran is the single biggest threat. obama has done a major virus attack on iran to bring down some of the nuclear reactors. he has been a ...

The eyes of the public. put together with handy graph showing this particular congress is less popular than -- the irs, the airline industry, lawyers. less popular than richard nixon during watergate than the banks in the oil and gas industry, than bp during the gulf oil spill, than paris hilton. this congress is less popular than communism and huk oh chavez. the only thing less popular than congress, fidel castro, and hes not even much less popular. on top of being historically inept and histor...

When say a bank is too big to fail, it has so much money and so many debts to other banks and investors that its failure could bring down other parts of the financial system as well. that is what happened when lehman and aig began to go down. when they went down, they owed so much money to everyone else, the very fact of their failure made other banks fail. banks that were fine the day before were not fine the next day. the banks are even bigger today than they were then, before the crisis. this...

The fact of their fillier made other banks fine. banks that were fine the day before were not fine the next day. the banks are even bigger today than they were then, before the crisis. this graph from bloomberg business week tells a story. in 06, the five biggest banks had $6 trillion in assets. today, they have $8.5 trillion. thats more than half what the entire u.s. economy produces in a single year. so when folks say they want to break up the big banks, its because they believe a series of sm...

Worst of all time. let us begin with just the simplest measure of how much congress is getting done. congressional productivity. its the number of laws they have passed, public laws they have passed. this graph shows the number of public laws passed by every congress dating back to the 80th congress in 1947. that was a congress harry truman called the do-nothing congress. it varies every year but its generally in the many hundreds. ready for this congress? yeah, thats it. that tiny little bar ov...

Figures, numbers. >> with a graph, its hard to do it. on iran, he said now iran is the single biggest threat. obama has done a major virus attack on iran to bring down some of the nuclear reactors. he has been a participant in multiple rounds of sanctions. how different was what romney opposed to do in iran than what obama proposed? >> its a lot more bellicose. its very contemperature of what obama did by saying at the beginning of his presidency he was going to talk to iran without precondition...