this piece and win them. i think that s what he needs to show at the end of this debt ceiling mess. all right, chris matthews has this idea that s kind of wonderfully old-fashioned. wonderful in the sense this sort of thing used to work, which is to simply say okay, i want to do this infrastructure stuff, i want to fix these bridges, repave these roads, and specify the congressional districts in which he wants to get these things done, republican congressional districts, the votes he would need and create that image of the school bus going over the bridge in september, the bridge that might not be safe enough because your member of the house of representatives is refusing to go forward with the kind of building we need. i don t think that s a bad idea. i think one of the lessons of the stimulus fight is the republicans were brilliant of playing both ends of it. they said the stimulus was bad and didn t work but all kinds of members of congress took credit
accelerate the recovery. right. yesterday, we were talking about how the president was out in milwaukee at labor fest 2010 announcing $50 billion worth of infrastructure stuff although it doesn t sound like it s going to create any jobs very before november and when you look at the we got a poll out that shows when given the choice, americans would prefer at this point to see a republican elected over a democrat at congress. you re in charge. d.n.c., you got are in a pickle. there are a lot of americans who feel that you guys just don t know what you re doing. yeah. you re in control. there s some, look at all those polls, what they say about republicans, it s even worse. no one is happy because the economy isn t where we want it to be. the economy that s shrinking is now growing. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. private sector has added jobs for the last eight months. we all agree it was shrinking. it s growing again. but it s got to grow faster. how do you make that h
projects of the national parks up eight times. so the money is out there. it s working. and specifically, in those infrastructure jobs, according to white house and the office of the vice president, you re going to see infrastructure stuff at work. remember last summer we heard people saying, wait a minute, all this money is how come we re not spending more money quickly? well, it was always meant to be staggered. i wanted to show you how it breaks down. they have spent $620 billion so far, but there was tax relief, so you ve already had the tax credit in your paycheck, and in fact, probably when you re paying your taxes this year, you notice that. eight payments to states and the like, an awful lot there. and so they say when you look at trajectory of the 3.5 million jobs saved or created that they promised from this epic, epic spending plan, they show you where we are on that trajectory. the goal is 3.5 million. they say here by the end of march, we were at about
bill that republicans won t support that democrats will try to pass on their own say so anyway. we shall see. anybody who told you last week that there was a done deal and a settled path forward in terms of how this infrastructure stuff gets passed was selling you a little bit of a bill of goods. there s lots still to get settled there, but democrats, including the white house, seem to remain committed at this point that whatever they re able to get done with some republican support is great. but even if all republicans say no, they ve got big other plans including the bulk of biden s climate agenda that they re going to try to pass on their own. that is sort of happening in democratic politics right now. it s interesting to see, right, to have the democratic party hold the white house, hold the house, hold the senate narrow majorities in both houses of congress, but to see them nevertheless, but to see them
comey testifies on congress and he has a number of options members want to ask him about including the conversations he had with the president and the memos mr. comey wrote about those. that day, there will be some more infrastructure stuff, even more in fact on friday, and at the end of friday, a meeting with the president of romania. so a lot of things on the plate for this president, as they try, try to move on from the russia investigation. john, back to you. meanwhile, just to be clear you had a chance to speak with kellyanne conway on the subject of the president s tweets on the travel ban. what did she say so you? reporter: that s right, after the four tweets this morning, the president sort of reframing his positions, if you will, on the travel ban, i asked kellyanne conway this morning what about the president s tweets, and she essentially asked me why it is we, the media, are obsessed and focus so