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Started even, even, even -- oh, thats not even -- ah! whats that?! republican plan looks totally like the democratic plan, until you get down to really, really, really rich people, and then its like, well, its like a big fat-bottomed snowman or something. that graph should be fun to campaign on. joining us now for the interview tonight is austan goolsbee, chief economist of the presidents economic recovery advisory board and a member of the council of economic advisers. mr. goolsbee, thank you v...

Republican plan looks totally like the democratic plan, until you get down to really, really, really rich people, and then its like, well, its like a big fat-bottomed snowman or something. that graph should be fun to campaign on. joining us now for the interview tonight is austan goolsbee, chief economist of the presidents economic recovery advisory board and a member of the council of economic advisers. mr. goolsbee, thank you very much for joining us. >> good to see you, rachel. >> first, let ...

Allen simpson. senator, what do you think of that idea? >> i think that he remind may of the third spirit in the christmas carol, i fear you most of all, neil. no ... [ laughter ] >> i love to hear what my fellow old coots were saying. i did hear that waiting to join you. i just -- at some point in time, the american people have to understand where we are. if you took a graph, leave off the physical off the numbers ana graph of deficit and interest and run it northeast to greece, ireland, spain,...

The flotilla was going on, i spoke about in the defense of israel and the defense of jews having the right to live. i did two shows on it. got a lot of heat, but somebody, he was writing on a by graph of a guy, detrek bonhoffer. he is a hero on the left. but they look at his politics. i look at his character. this guy, he sent me a box and i hopped it up. it now sits in my office. i brought it into the studio. you need to read about this guy. he is up believable. it was a lutheran minister in ge...

The flotilla was going on, i spoke about in the defense of israel and the defense of jews having the right to live. i did two shows on it. got a lot of heat, but somebody, he was writing on a by graph of a guy, detrek bonhoffer. he is a hero on the left. but they look at his politics. i look at his character. this guy, he sent me a box and i hopped it up. it now sits in my office. i brought it into the studio. you need to read about this guy. he is up believable. it was a lutheran minister in ge...

That we ordered drilled that will be the final kill kill. probably in the next 10 to 14 days, that will be done. but an important step last night. and as you also noted, our scientists and external scientists believe that the vast majority of the oil has now been contained. its been skimmed. of mother nature has done its part. its evaporated. and so i think were turning a corner here. >> for 107 days, we were talking about all the oil going into the gulf. where did all the oil go? this graph is ...

Illegal immigration is that its not actually getting worse. what youre looking at is a graph of border patrol ap rehenges in the last 30 years. illegal immigration is by definition hard to measure, its illegal and covert. but its one of the best static measures weve got of the scale of the problem over time. you can see here, the number of apprehensions made back in 1978 over there in the left side of the graph, roughly identical to the number of apprehensions in 2008. look at the last ten years...

Illegal immigration is that its not actually getting worse. what youre looking at is a graph of border patrol apprehensions in the last 30 years. illegal immigration is by definition hard to measure, its illegal and covert. but its one of the best static measures weve got of the scale of the problem over time. you can see here, the number of apprehensions made back in 1978 over there in the left side of the graph, roughly identical to the number of apprehensions in 2008. look at the last ten yea...

Stop this kind of thing in the future? >> theyre doing everything they can. >> i want to turn you to politics because you had the president in your state friday actually. and i want to play something that he said while he was in michigan. >> now, this morning we learned that our economy grew by 2.4% in the second quarter of the year. so that means its now been growing again for one full year. our economy is growing again instead of shrinking. >> okay. now, im going to put up for our audience a g...

Politics because you had the president in your state friday actually. and i want to play something that he said while he was in michigan. >> now, this morning we learned that our economy grew by 2.4% in the second quarter of the year. so that means its now been growing again for one full year. our economy is growing again instead of shrinking. >> okay. now, im going to put up for our audience a graph. and i know you know this, but in the fourth quarter of last year, economic growth was 5%. in th...